You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe feminine urge to stay safe.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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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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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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