I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEThe 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.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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