Black Theology Quotes

#1. At its core, black theology is predicated on the assertion that God has a unique relationship with African Americans. God is not a passive bystander in human history but rather an active participant in the struggles of oppressed and dispossessed people.

Melissa V. Harris-Perry

#2. In schools of theology Negroes are taught the interpretation of the Bible worked out by those who have justified segregation and winked at the economic debasement of the Negro at times almost to the point of starvation.

Carter G. Woodson

#3. Perspective in art has receded along with harmony in music: We tend more and more to see the world as a heap of intrinsically meaningless fragments.

Iain McGilchrist

#4. Our ports and our borders are the most unprotected fronts in the war on terror.

J. D. Hayworth

#5. The challenges I face in the studio pale in comparison to when I'm out in nature.

Michael Muller

#6. Like Belgian chocolate - absolutely sinful and completely irresistible'.

Joss Stirling

#7. The pursuit of PhD is enduring daring adventure.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#8. Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines.

Jean Baptiste Massillon

#9. A question that I can't answer is: what do you want to do next? What's your dream role? What are you really looking to do? Where do you see yourself? It doesn't make any sense because that's such an outsider's perspective.

Kristen Stewart

#10. The definition of a philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black hat, which isn't really there. And the definition of a theologian is he's somebody who finds it.

Michael Ruse

#11. Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

Robert A. Heinlein

#12. The only solution is education, education, education.

Malala Yousafzai

#13. We, at least I, need monsters. Without monsters, there are no heroes. Something has to be black and white.
~Lew Fonesca

Stuart M. Kaminsky

#14. People tell me to smile, I tell them the lack of emotion on my face doesn't mean I'm unhappy.

Jaden Smith

#15. We should all die with a sharp, brusque heart attack. My father was lucky like that. One day he went hunting. He had a good day, he killed a lot of game, he was with his best friends. He said, "Ah, I'm still a good hunter." Then he said, "I don't feel well," and in 30 seconds it was all over.

Alain Resnais

#16. Lionpaw glared over his shoulder at the three cats, wishing he could ignore the stupid truce and rip a piece of fur from each of them.

Erin Hunter

#17. The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

James Clavell

#18. So we speak of a Black God, Mother God, Worker God.
This de-mystifies what's been passed on to us! In our process of organization and liberation of our people, it's important to meet a God who is more like us. (Silvia Regina de Lima Silva, p. 105)

Mev Puleo

#19. Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.

Paul David Washer