Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
SUMAYA ENYEGUEShe spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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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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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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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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Women like me bleed on command.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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