Can we just pretend we are wanted?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHer body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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 just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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