These hands keep a score of everything.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIts okay if all you did this year was survive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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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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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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