Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEIf home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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All I have are the memories and all they do is haunt me.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Women like me bleed on command.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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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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I know I’m difficult to love but I’m going to need you to love me anyway.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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The last person I adored made me cry and then tenderly wiped the tears off my face. It was the only lesson that taught me; you can love someone and still do horrible, cruel things to them.
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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