Quotes From "Salt" By Nayyirah Waheed

The worstthing that ever happenedtothe worldwasthe white man coming across gun powder.—— the end of the world | the beginning of white supremacy Nayyirah Waheed

There is no healthier drug than creativity. Nayyirah Waheed

He was so beautiful because when he held her he was not concerned with ‘being a man.’ ‘being a man’ had nothing to do with this. these flowers pouring from his chest. — weightless Nayyirah Waheed

Curiouser and curiouser, " he says. I smile at the reference. Carroll was totally a witch. The secrets of our world are written into that book. Danielle Ellison

The thing is heavy. --I'm talking the whole Harry Potter series put together heavy. Those are some great books. Totally inaccurate, but great. Danielle Ellison

I'm not really sure what I'm going to do when I get there, but that's why someone invented the fine art of improv. Or, when that fails, stalling. Danielle Ellison

The thing you are mostafraid to writewrite that-- advice to young writers Nayyirah Waheed

There is you and you.this is a relationship.this is the most important relationship. Nayyirah Waheed

Healingbeginsthe momentyouwant it to Nayyirah Waheed

We are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell. Nayyirah Waheed

Alford was going to start this fast the same way he had started everything else, alone and uncertain Earl Lovelace

All of it was there but nothing had substance. It was as if they were all shadows, as if her leaving had taken the life out of the living things and left them shadows. he himself was a shadow.he felt no weight in his step, , no sound to his voice, no solidity to his gestures. he forgot time. he felt the ache of a pain whose depth he could not fathom no whose end anticipate Earl Lovelace

Everybody, he mused had everything worked out. Except me Earl Lovelace

When you allow that man. to walk through your children. plant his feet. in their veins. hold their voices. necks. bodies. inside his violence. you are no longer a mother. when you give him the key to that door. because you need to be loved by someone. you have seasoned them for the wolf. burned their childhood into a fantasy. it’s going to take a third of their lives. all the courage. from their cells to their hair. to learn the alchemetic formula that turns that kind of betrayal. a demothering. soft. liveable. — before you get that key made . Nayyirah Waheed

The rain in this room is low and thickand undressing my heart through the air. — intimacy  Nayyirah Waheed