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.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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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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