Corey Brown

“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

“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.”
― Chanequa Walker-Barnes, I Bring the Voices of My People: A Womanist Vision for Racial Reconciliation

“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

“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