I am tired of only being loved in theory.
SUMAYA ENYEGUECan we just pretend we are wanted?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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 am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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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 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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