Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI keep making art out of his mistakes.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
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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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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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There 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.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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