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“Everything worthwhile is dangerous”
― Victor Anderson

“I see signs of it wherever
racial, gender, sexual, and class identity politics are no longer totalizing but transcended-not negated-in creative exchange with other”
― Victor Anderson, Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience

“Our experiences are not compartmentalized or dichotomized into just so many world- and life-views. Rather, experience is a holistic unity of purposes and actions, thought and life, that begs for interpretation.”
― Victor Anderson, Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience

“race has the feel of being a priori, but in reality it is a historical construct that regulates our interhuman relations, though not always toward malicious forms of racism. Indeed, race may also enable forms of community bound by filial care and interests.”
― Victor Anderson, Creative Exchange: A Constructive Theology of African American Religious Experience