My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEDid our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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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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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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