Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWomen like me bleed on command.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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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 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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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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