Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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 not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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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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