Brown girls are not band aids for your pain.
SUMAYA ENYEGUEYou come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
More Sumaya Enyegue Quotes
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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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Black don’t crack: It does bruise, though. It does rupture into a new sky.
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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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This body belongs to all those who live in it.
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Loving you and leaving you taste the same in the mouth?
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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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I am just a bunch of bad decisions glued together.
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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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As you buy tampons you will be hit with the realization that you’re still paying in blood.
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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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The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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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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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Healing can look a lot like violence.
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