The feminine urge to stay safe.
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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Its okay if all you did this year was survive.
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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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Nothing worth keeping has ever wanted me back.
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Are you native to the land you are spilling blood on?
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Women like me bleed on command.
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I wish I was as good at love as I am at falling apart.
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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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She spends an eternity as shelter for men who curse her when the storm passes.
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You are something I am trying to love; Not something I am trying to 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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When a black girl dies; the last thing to decompose is her heart.
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You are not a dead thing. Stop acting like one.
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Sometimes I open my mouth and my mother comes out.
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Love is more thicker than forget.
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Did our fathers create silence or is it that what makes them our fathers?
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You look most like your father when you smile. It’s your ultimate betrayal.
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I am tired of only being loved in theory.
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I keep making art out of his mistakes.
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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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If home is where the heart is, then I don’t know where to go.
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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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You come here trying to make a meal out of me? I will eat you alive.
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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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You are a multiple choice exam and I have circled all the wrong answers.
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