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 tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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