When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEWhen a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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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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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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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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