Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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 am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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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 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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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