Sexuality and the Black Church Quotes

“White culture is not marked by its uniquely creative and enriching social contributions. Rather, it is distinguished by its ability to promote the sanctity of whiteness by devaluing that which is non-White.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective

“those who view themselves as superior in society (with White men generally at the apex) are compelled to deny their “vile” sexuality and project their own very real sexual desires on others,”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective

“Black women would become at least doubly victimized, thoroughly entrapped by a sexist and racist sacred dualistic ideology that implied their inhumanity.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective

“It was not so much a matter of why the Negro was black as why the Negro had become the very negation of white.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective

“To hear a White person remark, whether in earnest or jest, about Black men's sexual prowess or Black women's sexual promiscuity is not an uncommon experience for most Black people.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective

“only hope through this work to provoke the kind of sustained analysis, discourse, attitudes, and behaviors that will move all Black women and men closer to enjoying the fullness and uniqueness of their humanity.”
― Kelly Brown Douglas, Sexuality and the Black Church: A Womanist Perspective