Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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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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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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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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