Ijeoma Umebinyuo Quotes

#1. So many broken children living in grown bodies mimicking adult lives.

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#2. Stay away
from men who peel the skin
of other women, forcing you to
wear them.

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#3. I am too full of life
to be half-loved.

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#4. 1. You must let the pain visit.
2. You must allow it teach you
3. You must not allow it overstay.

(Three routes to healing)

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#5. Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don't stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.

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#6. Do not
drown yourself in a man.

He will leave you struggling to
breathe.

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#7. You did not carry yourself
away from pain
to become pain itself.

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#8. So, here you are
too foreign for home
too foreign for here.
Never enough for both.

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#9. forcing manhood
on boys with skin
still made of
silk and mother's love
is cruel

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