Social media has been such a big platform for my success. But it can also be a toxic place. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I want to create a collection, almost like a trilogy of sorts. Whereas ‘Milk and Honey’ was very much like holding a mirror up to yourself, the second book is turning that mirror around and fixing it on the world. The book is a reflection of the times we are in. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
The topics just kind of come to me. If they are relevant, it’s because they’re happening in the world around me, and it’s affecting me. Poetry is my way of dealing with it. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I was always writing for myself. I wrote what I needed to write and hear – that’s what makes it powerful. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I haven’t had the opportunity to study visual art, but it was always my first love when it came to artistic expression. I started drawing and experimenting with visual art when I was 5. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
I’m a brown girl from a Punjabi pind raised in Toronto. I don’t expect literary critics and purists to understand the nuances of my experiences, and the experiences of the people around me… And my tradition holds that there is a magic in the written word. So how I write, what I write of, and why I write all comes naturally. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
When things get better, there’s a swing to the pendulum where things get worse for others. Rupi Kaur Read Quote
Why are brown women bullying brown women for body hair? Why are brown women bullying brown women for the same traits we all have? Rupi Kaur Read Quote