She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIts okay if all you did this year was survive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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 never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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 not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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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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