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.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWomen like me bleed on command.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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These hands keep a score of everything.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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Love is more thicker than forget.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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