You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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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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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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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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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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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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