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“We are expected to take life seriously, yet life rarely takes us seriously. Therefore, we ought to laugh at every moment lest we allow life to take the final laugh.”
“Cyborg is what I and my people call your race.”
“My race? You mean the human race?”
“Yes, precisely. The human race.”
Kanan took in a long breath and coughed at the dryness in her throat. “Why don’t you just call us human?”
“Because,”said Tiqvah, turning away, “human is what we call ourselves.”
“We can’t both be human.”
“No. It seems not.”
― The Limits of My World
“My race? You mean the human race?”
“Yes, precisely. The human race.”
Kanan took in a long breath and coughed at the dryness in her throat. “Why don’t you just call us human?”
“Because,”said Tiqvah, turning away, “human is what we call ourselves.”
“We can’t both be human.”
“No. It seems not.”
― The Limits of My World
“In this season of growing darkness, I wonder how we as Christians choose to publicize the miracle we proclaim. If it is not leading to greater illumination—to a greater light—we might want to rethink how we’re doing it. How can we name the miracle, not as a simple fix, but as an abiding truth?”
― Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith
― Nourishing Narratives: The Power of Story to Shape Our Faith
“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.”
― Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus
― 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.”
― The Limits of My World
― The Limits of My World
“The political story cannot stand, survive, or be meaningful without the ecological story. Exodus is epistemologically and materially grounded in the earth, for survival and flourishing. But the exodus earth is more than a sire or stage of political liberation; the earth is a participant and subject to the story.”
― Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus
― Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus
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