I keep making art out of his mistakes.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAs you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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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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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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