This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
HINNAH MIANIf you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Seek refuge in the space between my bones.
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How does one love a person who is not a person but a multitude?
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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Allow me to introduce myself, A warning and a welcoming all at once.
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The most beautiful parts of your body are those you had to grow again.
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I am a child of borderlines and we are two lands, carved differently.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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She has learned so much from dying only to be born again.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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When I look in the mirror, I don’t see a poem.
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I always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
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I am only beautiful when my legs are open and I have forgotten my mother tongue to make room for yours.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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