The feminine urge to stay safe.
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 the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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