If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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 am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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