Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHealing can look a lot like violence.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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