Courtney

“It is not the practice of liberation to ignore and silence the voices of our sisters and brothers when they disagree with us. Such a response to dissenting or other voices constitutes a deployment of the master’s tools,277 and will never dismantle the master’s house, but merely constitutes a renovation of old structures.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

“Womanist biblical scholars reject a theology of exceptionalism because it liberates the few and imprisons the masses. A theology of exceptionalism supports a Thomasonian pull-yourself-up-by-your-boot-straps philosophy that denigrates the masses of poor and most marginalized peoples.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

“As female prophets who live in the margins, womanist biblical scholars must not be blinded by the center and its entrapments, but must maintain a peripheral vision focused on the struggles, concerns, and needs of black women and the masses of marginalized peoples.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

“The womanist prophetess submits herself to God as a text to be read, indicted, and transformed so that she in turn can be a revolutionary, transformative force in the world.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader