My true character is not defined by the color of my skin.

No matter what people may think of me day in and day out, I am a black man, who can racially profile myself if I believe that I am a threat to someone else.

My true character is beneath the color of my skin. It is up to me to be right or wrong about myself. Someone else’s opinions of me can’t change me from being who I am. Today and into another year, I would love to see my next birthday.

My true character is in my heart, and wants me to love my neighbors regardless of the color of their skin. I am a black man, whose limit is my own choice.

I will choose being a winner or loser, and no one else can choose my limits for me. True character is the choice that I make to destine my life.

I am a black man who can be a fugitive within my own soul if I agree with people who want to make me be who I am not. My true character is not what I say, but what I do from day to day. The color of my skin is no threat to anyone who accepts me for who I am.

I am a black man who doesn’t have to prove myself to be somebody when God already created me in his own image. I am a black man living under tons of opinions of me wherever I go. That can’t stop God from rooting for me, whom He allowed to exist for a reason under the sign of the rainbow. My true character is not my outward appearance.

I am a black man who is my own enemy if I bow down to people’s measures of me by their own insecurities. God put a treasure of self worth within me, and God wonderfully made it so that no one can take that away from me as I’d love to one day lick the dust.

My true character is not characterized by the color of my skin. Only God can judge me to be a black man who can be true or false to myself in a moment in time that belongs to God.

I am a black man who can put my own blood on my hands if I let people get between me and my Lord Jesus Christ, who gives me true lasting character when the color of my skin is only flesh and blood, which no one can use to characterize me or to judge me.