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.
The stories we tell leave the reader with a memory not so much of the stories themselves, but of how we look at the world.
Chimamanda Adichie • How I Became Black in America
A nation is shaped by the stories its children are told. A nation is sustained by the stories it tells itself. The good stories can liberate its potential, or help it face the dragons of its evils.
Ben Okri • The Mystery Feast: Thoughts on Storytelling
That when we reject the single story, when we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise.