Hope lingers like a moon.
HINNAH MIANI always wanted to be more than my brown skin, when you told me I was sweet like cinnamon.
More Hinnah Mian Quotes
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Somewhere in these walls we’re still dancing, feeling nostalgic and much too in my head.
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He reminds me of the shadow between silences.
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I want to be something to pray for but I don’t know how to be.
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I don’t know how to let you out without destroying us both.
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When you kissed me you breathed air into my lifeless soul.
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Every beauty mark, a country to roam. Every stretch mark, a river to cross.
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This country collects too many tongues, until our only language is silence.
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I want to separate writing from heartbreak but I don’t know how.
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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 have lived too many lives to be only one thing, and instead of attempting to mesh them into a form of a human being, I have decided to love every jagged edge of mine.
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This brown body is not an explosion- it is light and honey.
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Here I am, a mosaic of becomings.
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For once I want to be something that lasts.
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I loved you in quiet because to hide is to pretend that it is okay.
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If you wish to read the story of my people look no further than my body.
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