Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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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 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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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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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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