As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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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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It is terrifying to wonder whether that person you love is a walking red flag or a white flag of surrender dipped in your own blood.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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