I keep making art out of his mistakes.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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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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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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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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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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