I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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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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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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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 wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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