People call us different things we are labeled from the time we are born. Some labels are true, and some are not. Some are accurate for a time, but then we change, and they aren't accurate after that.
But the only label that really matters, in the end, is the label God puts on us. He tells us we are his own, dearly loved children.
And if we are his, and we are rejoicing in that fact, then the labels others put on us lose all power. They can't fill us with dread or fear or shame or pride.
Dre Dre, the boy in this book, has gotten many labels in his short life, but the one that is precious and eternal is this one: God's child