Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience Quotes.

1. "The blues demand of theology a prophetic criticism that contests all arbitrary uses of power or coercion, that challenges individual acquisitive materialism, that repudiates any and every attempt to undermine humanity's very humanness, and that cherishes the lives of ordinary everyday children and women and men of all cultures and races."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

2. "Theology must learn to see in the dark. Theology emerges from God's gracious act of mercy at our wrestling for meaning in our human condition."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

3. "Mary's song, like other songs by women in sacred scripture, is not a song of pious submission but one of righteous judgment and vindication for all who, like Mary and her son, are born poor and oppressed and unjustly victimized. She is prophesying the coming kin-dom of God, a time and place where those who are poor will receive God's bounty and those who are hungry will be fed while the rich and arrogant, those who are unjust, will be cast away."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

4. "Stories abound of Waters confirming black and white children together in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Raleigh, of his insisting on having white and black acolytes at masses at which he presided, and of his requiring the diocesan newspaper to cover the activities of black Catholics and their parishes with as much interest as they covered those of white Catholics in the diocese."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

5. "Miscegenation was still a big fear. And often competing schools would cancel sporting matches with Cathedral Latin because they did not want their students playing black students."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

6. "the Catholic Church was an egalitarian organization based on the equality of all God's children."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

7. "Communist, an enemy of southern culture, and a traitor of white Christianity."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

8. "By engaging in dialectical conversation with this music, theology places black vernacular culture at the heart of its mediation of the Christian message."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

9. "To many political planners and policy-makers in the Western world, Africa remains an irritating appendage to the human community."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience

10. "For Waters, faith expressed as love was the only answer."
- M. Shawn Copeland, Uncommon Faithfulness: The Black Catholic Experience