Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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