Humanists in the Hood Quotes

“For many enslaved Africans, the Bible only became an avenue of resistance because it was one of the few books available to Black folks in a white, Christian-dominated society that prohibited Black literacy. Reading the Bible and applying its lessons of redemptive suffering, salvation, and struggle aided African Americans in their revolutionary fight against the “contradictions” of chattel slavery in a so-called democratic nation.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“Blackness is not just black straight men. There are gay men in this work doing amazing work. There are queer folks. There are trans folks. There are gay and lesbian folks, bisexual…. There are atheist black people.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“D. Frederick Sparks”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“Larsen’s portrayal of Black female atheism in her 1928 novel is”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“The dominance of the faith-based industrial complex is a Catch-22 for communities of color that lack adequate social welfare services and educational and recreational spaces under an American capitalist system that essentially outsources these services to private organizations and tax-exempt nonprofits.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“But, if gods are all-knowing, why do they rely on imperfect messengers to unpack and “screw up” interpretations of their doctrines across the centuries? If they are all powerful why do they allow predators and thieves to infest the leadership of every major religious denomination on the planet?”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“Flipping it another way; do gods give a damn about universal health care, access to stable, affordable housing, and the right to earn a living wage with benefits for everyone? What use are gods who don’t protect bodily autonomy and the right to self-determination for queer, nonbinary and gender nonconforming folks? What use are they if they don’t protect these rights for women or folks with disabilities? What do supernatural deities say about these specific socioeconomic, cultural, and social issues? Why do they remain abjectly silent if they are in fact omnipotent and omnipresent?”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“birth, girls’ sexuality is a commodity, an object, an asset, and a “liability” to be marketed, bought, sold, and controlled in a birth-to-death cycle in which girls and women are straightjacketed by a litany of dos and (mostly) don’ts.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical

“deity.”
― Sikivu Hutchinson, Humanists in the Hood: Unapologetically Black, Feminist, and Heretical