All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThere is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
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