Our Men Do Not Belong To Us Quotes

“The only darkness we should allow into our lives is the night, for even then, we have the moon.”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us

“Your daughter’s face is a small riot,
her hands are a civil war,
a refugee camp behind each ear,
a body littered with ugly things,

but God,
doesn’t she wear
the world well.”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us

“I wear my loneliness like a taffeta dress riding up my thigh,
and you cannot help but want me.
You think it's cruel
how I break your heart, to write a poem.
I think it's alchemy.”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us

“Boys are haram; don't ever forget that”
― Warsan Shire, Our Men Do Not Belong To Us