Her body is a undiscovered country and she is afraid that someone will colonize it and expect her to thank them for the wreckage.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEMy love language is saying no and having them listen to me.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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Heaven is not something you need to die to get to.
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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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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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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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Can we just pretend we are wanted?
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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Sometimes the thing that destroys you also kisses you on the forehead.
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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