Warsan Shire — 💊 Healing Quote

Naming our experiences with full voice is a powerful act of healing.

“Give your daughters difficult names give them names that command the full use of tongue and that is how naming heals”

Naming our experiences with full voice is a powerful act of healing.

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark so greet the stranger with kindness”

— Warsan Shire

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”

— Warsan Shire

“Later that night holding an atlas in her lap she can trace the line of every country she has been and that is her healing map”

— Warsan Shire

“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”

— Warsan Shire