I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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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I’ve got nothing left to give but I keep digging deeper.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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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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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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How do you mourn the loss of someone who was never yours to begin with?
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Somewhere inside my throat lives your ache.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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We are so much more than skin can hold.
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My silhouette is an ocean, your lips a sailor.
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I like to trace the ghosts of your fingers on the back of my hand. They read- I don’t know how to hold without you.
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I love you like I barely had a land to call my own.
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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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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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Read the scars on my body like braille, for I no longer know how to tell a story that belongs deeply to me but is no longer mine.
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