humanist affect (the good feeling we get from hopeful solutions) will not translate into freedom, justice, recognition, or resolution. It merely provides temporary reprieve from the fact that blacks are not safe in an antiblack world, a
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“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
“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.”
― Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
― Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective
“Queering Black Churches provides a systematic approach for dismantling heteronormativity in Black congregations.”
― Queering Black Churches: Dismantling Heteronormativity in African American Congregations
― 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.”
― Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
― Ontological Terror: Blackness, Nihilism, and Emancipation
“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.”
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
― Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
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