Womanist Quotes

“But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.”
― Audre Lorde

“What can we learn from women like Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday that we may not be able to learn from Ida B. Wells, Anna Julia Cooper, and Mary Church Terrell? If we were beginning to appreciate the blasphemies of fictionalized blues women - especially their outrageous politics of sexuality - and the knowledge that might be gleaned from their lives about the possibilities of transforming gender relations within black communities, perhaps we also could benefit from a look at the artistic contributions of the original blues women.”
― Angela Y. Davis

“What did it mean for a black woman to be an artist in our grandmothers' time? In our great-grandmothers' day? It is an answer cruel enough to stop the blood.”
― Alice Walker

“Faith has taught me to see the miraculous in everyday life: the miracle of ordinary black women resisting and rising about evil forces in society, where forces work to destroy and subvert the creative power and energy my mother and grandmother taught me God gave black women.”
― Delores Williams

“Anything that strayed from the status quo was considered wild. And, she gave no apology. Leading the pack was her calm course of existence...
and her freedom.”
― Jamie A. Triplin

“However, the young person leaving college today, especially if she is a woman, must consider the possibility that her best offerings will be considered a nuisance to the men who also occupy her field. And then, having considered this, she would do well to make her mind to fight whoever would stifle her growth with as much courage and tenacity as Mrs. Hudson fights the Klan. If she is black and coming out into the world she must be doubly armed, doubly prepared. Because for her there is not simply a new world to be gained, there is an old world there must be reclaimed.”
― Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose

“It is shown all throughout history how black women are constantly out here on the front lines, yet we are treated as disposable.

We are at the planning tables.
We are creating real solutions.
We are confronting the police.
We are challenging the status quo.

We have your backs during protest and outside of protest.

But, if y'all don't have us...
then who does?”
― Jamie A. Triplin

“jangan jauhin teman karena pacaran. Nati dijauhin pacar malah nyari-nyari teman”
― vm

“You can be freak of the week, critical thinker & a domestic goddess all in one. There is a beauty in your layers, never dumb yourself down.”
― Ella December

“Womanist religious scholars want to unearth the hidden voices in history, scripture, and the experiences of contemporary marginalized African American women to discover fragments that can create a narrative for the present and future.”
― Monica A. Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology

“I knew how much my mother loved me by her love and patience with my child.”
― Alice Walker, Gathering Blossoms Under Fire: The Journals of Alice Walker

“...we steal with our eyes closed to the conditions in which the poor, who make our affluence possible, live. We covet what our neighbours have and want more of the same.”
― Karen Baker-Fletcher, Dancing with God: The Trinity from a Womanist Perspective

“A postmodern womanist theology can explain why salvation is found both among black women braiding hair in a church on a rainy night and black women dancing to a drumbeat in an old warehouse on a sunny Sunday morning.”
― Monica A. Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology

“Salvation is the insurrectionary and revolutionary process of challenging the status quo and demanding equality and inclusion.”
― Monica A. Coleman, Making a Way Out of No Way: A Womanist Theology

“The call of discipleship is the invitation to follow Jesus. The condition for discipleship is to engage in a ministry similar to his. We are called to engage in life-affirming, God glorifying, agony-eradicating ministry. We are called to partner with Jesus in service, not pain. Pain is a consequence of discipleship. It is not a lifestyle, a life sentence, or a life goal. Pain only signals the level of opposition to ministry. It is not the measure of discipleship; ministry is. (p. 166)”
― Raquel Annette St. Clair, Call and Consequences: A Womanist Reading of Mark

“Many women I met during my time in the academy were very good to me. But in the wake of everything I lost, I wanted to reclaim parts of me with some semblance of wholeness before everything was burned in the fire. To do that, I needed to reconnect with people who knew me before I began chasing whatever success I thought I'd find being an acclaimed Womanist scholar. I need the people who knew me when my dreams were big, and my spirit and heart were unbroken.”
― Candice Marie Benbow, Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough