Healing can look a lot like violence.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIt 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.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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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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