Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESelf Love is just me loving you in reverse.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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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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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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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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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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