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
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Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person but to make it the definitive story of that person.
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Because of writers like Chinua Achebe and Camara Laye ... I realized that people like me, girls with skin the color of chocolate, whose kinky hair could not form ponytails, could also exist in literature.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie