Corey Brown

“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

“It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.”
― Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

“The First Noble Truth invites us to welcome our wounds and meet our suffering with courage and compassion”
― Cheryl A. Giles, Black and Buddhist: What Buddhism Can Teach Us about Race, Resilience, Transformation, and Freedom

“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