Renae Stahl

“Against exploitation of human and nonhuman life, the Exodus story’s earthly and earthy focus—the rootedness of home in the earth—signifies that political liberation without ecological liberation is not only insufficient but also deficient and ultimately unacceptable.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Liberation is not just about movement from one place to another, but especially about how Exodus’ multiple movements become mechanisms for bringing liberation to the material and ideological structures of oppression in Egypt, the Wilderness, the Mountain, and beyond. The catalyst for exodus liberation movement (“let my people go”) serves a larger goal: “let my people live” —the hermeneutical and material transition from erased, marginalized, and singularized existence to creative freedom, wholeness, and community that enshrines the full flourishing of the material and interpretive soul/life.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“The more our language evolved to express the truth of the world as we saw it, the less our ears could understand anything except the words of those who already agreed with us.”
― Gregory Coles, The Limits of My World

“The switch from “let my people go” to “let my people live” means that liberation is more than a response to oppression. Africana life and hermeneutics include a response to oppression, and so accord with epistemological and hermeneutical force of “let my people go.” The power and future of liberation—the power to transform unformed futures into formed futures—depends on making sure that those narrative lacunae speak, and that they speak not so much as perfectly designed stories with only occasional detours but as resilient voices that regenerate and produce new life and life-forms.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus