I am tired of only being loved in theory.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWomen like me bleed on command.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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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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Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
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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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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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