I want to create many overlapping stories drawn from the depths of my subconscious mind, not a single point story but stories with many angles and a great many dimensions.
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from “The Danger of a Single Story”
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie from “The Danger of a Single Story”
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