Since most professional theologians are the descendants of the advantaged class and thus often represent the consciousness of the class, it is diffic… - James H. Cone

Black Power seeks not understanding but conflict; addresses blacks and not whites; seeks to develop black support, but not white good will.

A man is free when he sees clearly the fulfillment of his being and is thus capable of making the envisioned self a reality.

If Ludwig Feuerbach is correct in his contention that “Thought is preceded by suffering,” and if Karl Marx is at least partly correct in his observation that “it is not consciousness that determines life but life that determines consciousness,” then it is appropriate to ask, What is the connection between life and theology? The answer cannot be the same for blacks and whites, because blacks and whites do not share the same life. The life of a black slave and white slaveholder were radically different.