She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
SUMAYA ENYEGUECan we just pretend we are wanted?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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