The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThis body belongs to all those who live in it.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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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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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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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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