Corey Brown

“fact, the more a white person was exposed to the cultural idea of the white christ, the more despicably they treated Blacks.”
― Christena Cleveland, God Is a Black Woman

“White culture is not marked by its uniquely creative and enriching social contributions. Rather, it is distinguished by its ability to promote the sanctity of whiteness by devaluing that which is non-White.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective

“Queering Black Churches provides a systematic approach for dismantling heteronormativity in Black congregations.”
― Brandon Thomas Crowley, Queering Black Churches: Dismantling Heteronormativity in African American Congregations

“Free Black” is a grammatical and syntactical battlefield upon which dead bodies—Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, Michael Brown, among countless others—are displayed. We can also call this disaster the “metaphysical holocaust,” as Frantz Fanon describes it. It is the systemic and relentless wiping out of black cosmologies, histories, and frames of reference/orientation.”
― Calvin L. Warren, Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation