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“...enslaved people "were conjuring out of nothing that manhood that has been stripped away from them for four hundred years, they used the spirituals as a catalyst.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

“How many times have we heard an African official or a “black authorityâ€� saying, “We blacks, we are cursed, it is as if we were destined to remain inferior, retarded, to remain Negroes! Yes, we are cursed, we will never develop as the Asians or the whites do, we are not capable, mentally or intellectually, we are condemned to remain Negroes forever, always behind the others, cursedâ€�! I have heard similar words coming from the mouth of ministers, ambassadors, African diplomats, some expressing themselves in front of their young children, who drank their words.”
― Yves Kayemb Uriël Nawej, White Poison: A Black Christian is a Traitor to the Memory of his Ancestors - Africa Wake Up!

“Today, it is not up to Africa to tell the white race to examine itself. It is especially up to herself to do its own self-examination. It has to forgive once and for all, to stop blaming whites and decrying their misdeeds and the causes of their actual misfortune. It must dare to look itself directly into its own eyes, see things as they are today in its own house, amongst Africans themselves, and have the courage to say and recognize what they see in this house.”
― Yves Kayemb Uriël Nawej, White Poison: A Black Christian is a Traitor to the Memory of his Ancestors - Africa Wake Up!

“This book is not at all an incitement to racial hatred or to vengeance regarding the crimes that the white race may have committed towards the black race, not at all. The white race has already paid the price for its crimes: it has lost its purity, its innocence and this is due to the crimes that it has committed. A people that is responsible for and guilty of such crimes becomes embittered and its level of civilization fades away bit by bit.”
― Yves Kayemb Uriël Nawej, White Poison: A Black Christian is a Traitor to the Memory of his Ancestors - Africa Wake Up!

“Africa, despite all the cruelty it suffered, has never wanted to call for an interracial war of blacks against whites. This is what makes the greatness of the African people, This generous and just attitude of Africa must remain unchanged.”
― Yves Kayemb Uriël Nawej, White Poison: A Black Christian is a Traitor to the Memory of his Ancestors - Africa Wake Up!

“There were Black churches in America before we even became a country. Slaves organized churches in present-day South Carolina and Georgia before they were freed, and before we as colonies broke free from the tyranny of Great Britain.”
― Tom C.W. Lin, The Capitalist and the Activist: Corporate Social Activism and the New Business of Change

“Church is a wonderful place but it also at times it has represented the worst of who we are.”
― Nijiama Smalls, The Black Family's Guide to Healing Emotional Wounds

“White planters used the Bible to justify slavery; Black people, held in bondage, used the spirituals to express their own beliefs in God, justice, and freedom. Frederick Douglass called the songs "a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

“...the great blues musician W.C. Handy said, "I think these spirituals did more for our emancipation than all the guns of the Civil War.”
― Henry Louis Gates Jr., The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song

“The Gospel describes loving your neighbor as yourself, whatever that means, if it means to educate, to feed, to clothe, to house, to advocate, to fight for justice. When the church stops doing that, the church has no reason for being.”
― Dwight Andrews