“You are not called to be the poster children for the status quo. Stretch into whatever vocation you are called to do… Refuse to live your lives in the past tense, the sad what-ifs, the dead-end maybes, the rootless and fruitless could-bes.” —Rev. Dr. Emilie Townes
“If, indeed, womanist theology is accountable to ‘ordinary’ Black people as they struggle through life to ‘make do and do better,’ then as a womanist theeologian I am compelled to do my best, despite my limitations, to contribute as boldly as I can to the Black struggle for life and wholeness.” —Dr. Kelly Brown Douglas