You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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 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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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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