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Warsan Shire
Warsan Shire is a Somali-British poet, writer and teacher born in 1988 in Kenya and raised in London. Her work, including the collection Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth, examines migration, identity and womanhood and gained wider recognition after being featured in Beyoncé’s visual album Lemonade; she was named London’s first Young Poet Laureate in 2013.
Quotes: 2
Quotes by Warsan Shire
Choosing Love Only Beyond Sweet Solitude
Warsan Shire’s line begins from an unexpectedly grounded place: solitude is not a punishment but a pleasure. By saying her “alone feels so good,” the speaker frames independence as a lived richness—quiet mornings, unshar...
Created on: 3/9/2026
The Many Selves We Carry Within
Warsan Shire’s line opens with a provocative contradiction: how can someone be “a thousand different people” and still remain the same “me”? The answer is emotional rather than mathematical—identity isn’t a fixed point b...
Created on: 2/21/2026