You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe 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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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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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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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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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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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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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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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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