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“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

“womanist scholars exegete Scripture within the overarching hermeneutic of liberty and justice for the oppressed and most marginalized.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

“Yet even as women are the majority in most black churches and even though black women’s oppressions, especially with regard to sexual assault, have been the impetus for the Civil Rights movement,264 the black church has failed on any significant scale to be an activist for gender inclusivity and sexual orientation.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader

“A theology of exceptionalism lifts up the exceptions as a standard for the masses and is often blind to the need to dismantle systems of oppression.”
― Mitzi J. Smith, I Found God in Me: A Womanist Biblical Hermeneutics Reader