I tell the boy in my class that no means no and he laughs in my face – says no means change my mind.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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