for those who think they speak “Christian” fluently, the faith itself is often misunderstood and distorted by many to whom it is seemingly very familiar.
“fact, the more a white person was exposed to the cultural idea of the white christ, the more despicably they treated Blacks.”
― God Is a Black Woman
― God Is a Black Woman
“The First Noble Truth invites us to welcome our wounds and meet our suffering with courage and compassion”
― Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
― Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom
“The manifestations of White fragility often vary by gender; men are more likely to evince anger, argumentativeness, and aggression, whereas women are more likely to employ tears and proclamations of fear and helplessness.”
― I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation
― I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation
“This is an important re-reading of this Joshua passage because few preachers highlight the spies as johns, and thus procurers of sex from women. Granted, the two spies were on a mission of espionage, but they also stopped at a brothel, a stop they were never instructed to make.”
― Badass Women of the Bible: Inspiration from Biblical Women Who Challenged and Subverted Patriarchy
― Badass Women of the Bible: Inspiration from Biblical Women Who Challenged and Subverted Patriarchy
“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.”
― Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
― Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
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