Perhaps it’s time for us to read some other sacred texts alongside the Bible. My grandmother’s words are a sacred text to me—a sacred text of country Black girlhood. My mother’s words are a sacred text to me—a sacred text of grown Black womanhood. The words of Sojourner Truth, and Alice Walker, and Zora Neale Hurston, and Audre Lorde, and Patricia Hill Collins, and Anna Julia Cooper, and Beyoncé and my homegirls are all sacred texts to me. Black feminism has been a liberatory theology for me in its own right.
