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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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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These hands keep a score of everything.
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