The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEShe spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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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 am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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