By becoming poor and entrusting divine revelation to a carpenter from Nazareth, God makes clear where one has to be in order to hear the divine word and experience divine presence. Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986)
To be Christian is to be one of those whom God has chosen. God has chosen black people! Black Theology and Black Power (1969)
The Christian does not decide between violence and nonviolence, evil and good. He decides between the less and the greater evil. Black Theology and Black Power (1969)
Any talk about God that fails to make God's liberation of the oppressed its starting point is not Christian. Speaking the Truth: Ecumenism, Liberation, and Black Theology (1986)
Oppressed and oppressors cannot possibly mean the same thing when they speak of God. The God of the oppressed is a God of revolution who breaks the chains of slavery. The oppressors' God is a God of slavery and must be destroyed along with the oppressors. A Black Theology of Liberation (1970)