I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWomen like me bleed on command.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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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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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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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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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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