Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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 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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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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