The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEI tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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