A biography for Rupi Kaurhasn’t been written yet.
“It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story, I thing the point I wished to make has found its mark.”
“I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.”
“Why are brown women bullying brown women for body hair? Why are brown women bullying brown women for the same traits we all have?”
“fall in lovewith your solitude”
“My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that.”
“people say things meant to rip you in half but you hold the power to notturn their words into a knifeand cut yourself”
“for you to see beauty heredoes not meanthere is beauty in meit means there is beauty rootedso deep within youyou can’t help butsee it everywhere”
“I sat with myself one day and asked, 'Who is in those prestigious literary circles? Do they represent me? Do they appreciate the topics I write about and the style in which I write? Do those gatekeepers let a demographic like mine through the door?' And the answer was no.”
“most importantly lovelike it's the only thing you knowat the end of the day all this means nothingthis page where you're sitting your degree your jobyour money nothing even matters except love and human connectionwho you lovedand how deeply you loved themhow you touched the people around you and how much you gave them”
“I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20.”
“I've been thinking a lot about the journey of my parents - just seeing the sacrifices they've made to allow me to do what I do. How much of a difference their sacrifices have made through the generations.”
“My favourite character in fiction was probably either James from 'James and the Giant Peach' or Ender from 'Ender's Game.' They were just ordinary people who were living under various amounts of struggle, and just to follow their journeys and see them break out of that and live extraordinary lives - I think that gave me a lot of hope as a kid.”
“My gut is so strong. I feel like I have a lot of books in me, and they're going to come out because I said so. It's going to happen.”
“every time you tell your daughteryou yell at herout of loveyou teach her to confuseanger with kindnesswhich seems like a good ideatill she grows up totrust men who hurt hercause they look so muchlike you- to fathers with daughters”
“it was when I stopped searching for home within others and lifted the foundations of home within myself I found there were no roots more intimate than those between a mind and body that have decided to be whole.”
“When I was little, my dad told me about Anandpur Sahib and the court of Guru Gobind Singh. That we came from a tradition of poets, warriors and artists who created when it was illegal to create... we're groomed to be reckless in the defense of what we feel is right.”
“i am not a hotel room. i am homei am not the whiskey you wanti am the water you needdon't come here with expectationsand try to make a vacation out of me”