Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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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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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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My love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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