Women like me bleed on command.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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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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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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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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