Danté Stewart (Stew) Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Danté Stewart (Stew)

“Attention is the beginning of devotion.” — Mary Oliver, Upstream

Danté Stewart (Stew)

I picked up a used copy of Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 book “The Old Man and The Sea”. In it the previous owner had written: “discover yourself purely as a human being without the social pressures of recognition”. Before people know who we are, we first have to love who we are.

Danté Stewart (Stew)

Alice Walker is right writing in The Color Purple: “think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.” I think it also pisses God off when we don’t recognize and protect the sacredness and freedom of this planet and it’s people.

Danté Stewart (Stew)

I keep thinking about this Alice Walker quote in The Color Purple: “...have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. They come to church to share God, not find God.”

Danté Stewart (Stew)

I picked up a used copy of Ernest Hemingway’s 1952 book “The Old Man and The Sea”. In it the previous owner had written: “discover yourself purely as a human being without the social pressures of recognition”. Before people know who we are, we first have to love who we are.

Danté Stewart (Stew)

I keep thinking about this James Baldwin quote from The Fire Next Time: “When I was very young, and was dealing with my buddies in those wine—and urine-stained hallways, something in me wondered, What will happen to all that beauty? For black people…are very beautiful.”

Danté Stewart (Stew)

In his 1972 book, No Name In The Street, James Baldwin writes: “The reason for this, at bottom, is that the doctrine of white supremacy, which still controls most white people, is itself a stupendous delusion:” https://t.co/gH5UyyM8Qt

Danté Stewart (Stew)

@JacielCordoba Heavy by Kiese Laymon, Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, and The Light of the World by Elizabeth Alexander

Danté Stewart (Stew)

@JaziLC Yes! Enfleshing Freedom by M. Shawn Copeland, Being Christian by Rowan Williams, A Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone, and Thinking About God by Dorothee Sölle

Danté Stewart (Stew)

@JaziLC Yes! Enfleshing Freedom by M. Shawn Copeland, Being Christian by Rowan Williams, A Black Theology of Liberation by James Cone, and Thinking About God by Dorothee Sölle