I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWe romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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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 look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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There is a girl on fire a woman choking a body walking into the ocean and they all have my face. They all have my heart because I give that away so easily.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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