She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEHealing can look a lot like violence.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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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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