Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- The danger of a single story (TEDGlobal 2009); Complete20-word sentence in her argument against reductive portrayals of people and communities. Official transcript checked; her own words before a separately attributed Alice Walker quotation.
- The danger of a single story (TEDGlobal 2009)
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