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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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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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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