Renae Stahl

“It is no longer enough to simply explore how to survive while sharing space with the structure that threatens to eliminate you; one must ask how to redesign the structure.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus

“Fragile systems and ideologies have a way of producing fragile minds and mindsets that rely on marginalizing others. The appropriate response to this reality is ultimately not to switch residential zip codes but to change governing ideology... To shift location from Egypt to Canaan, without changing the underlying social, political, and ideological determinants of marginalization, is to transfer the problem rather than resolve it.”
― 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

“Thus framed the first narrative lacuna, the first release of communal tears, in this storied journey is that the oppressive Pharaoh did not know Joseph. What it is about Joseph that this Pharaoh—only the latest in a succession of Pharaohs within the political institution—did not know is unclear and unstated. But far as epistemological amnesia screams for narrative and interpretive attention. His amnesia is corrosive to the communal and interpret of existence of the Hebrews. And it is from that abyss that the exodus-motif begins to birth Exodus-story.”
― Kenneth N Ngwa, Let My People Live: An African Reading of Exodus