I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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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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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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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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