Black Angels

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/feb/28/local/me-butler28 "In the worlds that Butler created, African Americans and other people of color were present and significant in ways they had not been before."

The angel is in some way related to humankind, with our shape and our appetites. But angels lack our faults and our weaknesses; no spots, blemishes, physical imperfections, not even the problems associated with gender. In practice, therefore, the representation of the angel should simply be the person each of us would like to be in our dreams.                           - Trevor Phillips (Independent.co.uk)

  "I thought I had already broken out the mental cage I was born and raised in-... a human God, a white God, a male God..."                            - Octavia Butler Bloodchild and Other Stories "The Book of Martha"

"I found God in myself, and I loved her fiercely"                                         - Ntozake Shange "For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When                                                                        the  Rainbow is Enough"