Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIt 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.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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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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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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 just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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