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.
We story our way through our lives. Might the stories loosen, lift, change?
Lidia Yuknavitch • Reading the Waves: A Memoir
Only fiction has the power to cross the mental barricades, to make strangers intelligible to each other, because it moves people’s hearts as well as engaging their minds.
Ian Leslie • Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It
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
Stories are the highest technology of being.
Ben Okri • The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling
every conflict is in part a battle over the story we tell, or who tells and who is heard.
Rebecca Solnit • Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities
So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie • "The Danger of a Single Story"
stories have the power to make us connect; stories make us human.