You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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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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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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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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