Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUESometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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The only difference between a mother and her daughter is how long they’ve lived with the trauma.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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These hands keep a score of everything.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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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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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to survive.
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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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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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So sick of us calling this ugly feeling grief.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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