Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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