You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWe 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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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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