Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • "The Danger of a Single Story"
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Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
Stories are a way to preserve one’s self. To be remembered. And to forget. Stories come in so many forms: in charcoal, and in song, in paintings, poems, films. And books.
V. E. Schwab • The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
- STORIES MAKE THE WORLD GO ROUND
Rainn Wilson • The Bassoon King: Art, Idiocy, and Other Sordid Tales from the Band Room
‘We all have a story to tell – the denial of that story can cause despair.’ I credit this to Arnold Zable but I think it comes from Jungian psychology . We are nothing but the sum of our stories. The more I write and perform, the more clarity it gives me on my personal history and understanding of human nature. Writing releases so many emotions and
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Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • "The Danger of a Single Story"
What other stories can be told? How do people recognize that they have the power to be storytellers, not just listeners?
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives—the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change—truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts. —Novelist Salman Rushdie