I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHealing can look a lot like violence.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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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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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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