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“into whitemalegod’s hands. Interestingly, we didn’t fast and pray for anything other than marriage. By putting marriage on a pedestal, my parents taught me that my main objective in life was to please God by pleasing men. First, I was to please my dad, who enforced the fasting, and then I was to please my future husband, who was the prize for fasting.”
― Christena Cleveland, God Is a Black Woman