Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESelf Love is just me loving you in reverse.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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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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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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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