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" I think social media is... really cool in the sense that I don't think that a writer like me would've found a readership if maybe Instagram wasn't there. "
Rupi Kaur
Me
Think
Social Media
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" I think I finally overcame my self-esteem and confidence issues at around 20. "
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Finally
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" 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. "
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Me
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" My heart is beating, and I'm breathing, and nothing anybody has ever done has changed that. "
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Done
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" When I'd hang out with guy friends, I'd say things like 'I just don't get along with other girls.' Just so they could think I was cooler, you know? Shamelessly trying to level myself up by putting other women down. God it's so embarrassing to admit, but it's important cause I want people to know about the growth. That I'm not perfect. "
Rupi Kaur
God
Growth
Myself
" I like B.C. because it's so beautiful, but I think Toronto's the greatest place because every corner of the world is here. "
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Think
World
Toronto
" My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He's a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he'd always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold. "
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Food
Healing
Medicine
" I feel social media can be very distracting, unhealthy, and harmful to one's self-confidence. I don't even log on to it on my phone except when I post something on Instagram. "
Rupi Kaur
Self-Confidence
Media
Social Media
" Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up. "
Rupi Kaur
Canada
Growing Up
Parents
" I realize I'm blessed to have the luxury of being a full-time writer. Not many people have that. "
Rupi Kaur
Realize
People
Luxury
" Before I begin to write, I listen to music that inspires me. I listen to folk Punjabi music, sufi music. "
Rupi Kaur
Listen
Music
Before
" 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. "
Rupi Kaur
Point
Now
Tough
" If I body-shame a woman, it is more a reflection of me being critical of my body, me not being able to keep up to certain standards I have, and so making sure that the women around me feel the same way. "
Rupi Kaur
Woman
Body
Feel
" I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given. "
Rupi Kaur
Start
Thinking
Poet
" 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
Kind
Because
World
" My parents didn't allow me to do all the things the cool kids could do. I was quiet, reserved, and at some points, taken complete advantage of simply because of my sex and gender. For a while, in high school, I was so deep into self-hate. "
Rupi Kaur
High School
Parents
Deep
" 'Milk and Honey' was written with me being honest to myself, kind of pulling at the things that I hear the most and saying that out loud, and you know, that thing that we hear the most is most universal, and so that rings true with all folks. The language used in the poetry is extremely, extremely accessible. "
Rupi Kaur
Language
Poetry
Me
" Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them. "
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Ugly
Feeling
Life
" I think I only started to speak to people in grade four. "
Rupi Kaur
People
Only
Speak
" For me, the power of the poetry in 'Milk and Honey' is the feeling you get after finished reading the poem. It's the emotion you feel once you've read the last word, and that is only possible when the diction is easy, and you don't get stuck on every other word, you don't know what the word means. "
Rupi Kaur
Honey
Know
Me
" The pain that all people experience in life and the light that helps them champion through it all - it's their lives and their stories and their love and will to keep living that moves me to write. "
Rupi Kaur
Love
Me
Pain
" I won the speech competition in class, and I always say this was my first 'spoken word performance.' It was the first time I got on stage and recited something. I fell in love with the stage at the age of 12. "
Rupi Kaur
Speech
Age
Competition
" 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
Tradition
Magic
Girl
" For some of my young female readers, it will be the first time they will have seen a Punjabi author be successful in the West. Because I'm dealing with topics that aren't always easily discussed, I know they will look up to me, because I would have done the same. So I just want to make sure I do right by them, wherever this takes me. "
Rupi Kaur
Successful
Time
Done
" I can go to all these cool places around the world, but when we land at YYZ, I'm like, 'Yes! It's flat. It's concrete. I'm okay with this; my people are here.' "
Rupi Kaur
Cool
World
Okay
" 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. "
Rupi Kaur
Journey
Me
Parents
" A lot of Indian fathers don't know how to show affection. My parents really do love me, even though my dad has never been able to say those words to me. "
Rupi Kaur
Words
Love Me
Love
" I always wrote stories, but I do remember a particular moment in middle school where I became passionate about essay writing. "
Rupi Kaur
Moment
Remember
School
" You have to really understand that although certain memories or stories make you sad, you are not sad. Pull yourself out from that emotion and remember that. "
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Yourself
Memories
Remember
" I want to leave behind a literary legacy. "
Rupi Kaur
Behind
Literary
Legacy
" Truth, honesty, empowerment - it's what I want for myself and my readers. "
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Honesty
Truth
Myself