Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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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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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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