Motherhood Quote by Della Reese

Della Reese drops this line like a mic, and it lands with the swagger of someone who’s spent a lifetime turning big feelings into performance. “My mother was a personal friend of God” isn’t theology; it’s intimacy as status. Reese takes the most distant possible figure and drags Him into the living room, past the polite, institutional version of faith, into something conversational and lived-in. The exaggeration is the point: she’s not claiming her mom was holy in some abstract way, she’s insisting her mother’s authority came from relationship, not reputation.

The subtext is twofold. First, it’s reverence without sentimentality. Calling God a “personal friend” makes the divine less like a judge and more like a trusted ally, the kind you call when the world is chaotic. Second, it’s a flex on behalf of Black matriarchal power: the mother as spiritual switchboard, the one who can intercede, advise, and steady the family because she’s been “in conversation” with something larger than any hardship. Reese grew up in the thick of segregation-era America; for many Black families, faith wasn’t a decorative identity, it was infrastructure. Saying her mother had “ongoing conversations” suggests prayer as a daily practice, not a crisis hotline.

It also works because it’s funny in a sly, affectionate way. Reese threads humor through devotion, which keeps the line from sounding preachy. The result is a portrait of belief that’s less about doctrine than about access: to comfort, to guidance, to a kind of unshakeable inner composure her mother apparently carried like a calling card.