My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWomen like me bleed on command.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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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