All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEBrown girls are not band aids for your pain.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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Shame is what happens when you learn self love through people who are difficult to forgive.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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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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I am always becoming a new tragedy. Trading one torture for another. Forever versatile in this becoming.
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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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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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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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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