Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEOf all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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I never wanted to be so alone that all I have is you.
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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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Alone is the safest I have ever felt.
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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
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I poured myself from an empty cup but you weren’t even thirsty.
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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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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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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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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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These hands keep a score of everything.
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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 come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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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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Of all the things I had to endure, you were my favorite obstacle.
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When will I realize the absence of hate is not love?
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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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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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