Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIts okay if all you did this year was survive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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