Quotes about Identity

We are God's art. We are God's poem, created to display His beauty and goodness.

We give our mistakes too much power. Instead, see a mistake for what it is. It is not the real you… You are more valuable than the opinion others have of you.

My message to blacks was: "It is time to stop hating who you are. God created you black—love yourself, love your hands and face, big nose and lips, for that is the only way you can love God. Blackness is God's gift to humanity.

They shouted, danced, clapped their hands and stomped their feet as they bore witness to the power of Jesus' cross which had given them an identity far more meaningful than the harm that white supremacy could do them.

When persons encounter God's self-disclosure, they not only know who God is but also who they are.

How could any theologian explain the meaning of Christian identity in America and fail to engage white supremacy, its primary negation?

To be black means that your heart, your soul, your mind, and your body are where the dispossessed are." To become black is like what Jesus told Nicodemus, that he must be "born again," that is, "born of water and Spirit" (John 3), the Black Spirit of liberation.

I was black before I was a Christian. Martin and Malcolm, therefore, had to go together, which meant being unashamedly black and unapologetically Christian.

But instead of being con-formed to the world, Christians are to be changed from within to be increasingly like Jesus Christ.

War presents itself as necessary for self-protection, when in fact it is necessary for self-identification.

The first photograph I ever experienced consciously is a picture of my mother from before she gave birth to me. Unfortunately, it's a black-and-white photograph, which means that many of the details have been lost, turning into nothing but gray shapes.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.