Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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 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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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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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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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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