Sumaya Enyegue on language
Sumaya Enyegue50 quotes“My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.”
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue 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.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Healing can look a lot like violence.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Can we just pretend we are wanted?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue 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.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I am tired of only being loved in theory.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue Women like me bleed on command.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue This body belongs to all those who live in it.
Sumaya EnyegueSumaya Enyegue
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