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.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHeaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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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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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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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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