Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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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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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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Women like me bleed on command.
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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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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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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