Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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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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