The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEDid our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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