We romanticize trauma so much that we have stopped trying to prevent it and started smiling at all the scars it leaves.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEAs you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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 keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Do girls really mature faster than boys or are you looking for a way to sexualize young girls without feeling guilty about it?
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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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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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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