Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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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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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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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Self Love is just me loving you in reverse.
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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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