8 Quotes by Monica A. Coleman

Salvation is the insurrectionary and revolutionary process of challenging the status quo and demanding equality and inclusion.

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.

Salvation fits into a unified view of the entire world, and yet it is also gritty, localized, and contextual. It is grounded in concrete experiences of the world. It must always look, feel, and taste like something.

Oppression is unjustly distributed.

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.

Do you want to be made well? I like this question for all that’s behind it. The healers are asking: Are you willing to have a new experience? You know sickness, but you don’t know wellness. You’ve learned how to manage what you do know. You know it like the back of your hand.

Of course one wants to feel better. But are we willing to have new experiences? Are we willing to work for it? Do we want it bad enough?

There’s a lot of waiting that occurs in the lives of people who live with depression. In between the desire to be well and wellness is a lot of waiting. We wait to feel better. We wait to get better.