Last year when I read her book, Purple Hibiscus, I blogged about Chimamanda Adichie. She is a powerful, well-spoken woman from Nigeria, and today she had an important message for me.
Today she reminded me about the importance of the story and the consquence of the single story--when we start to believe only one story we know about a person or a people or about ourselves.
To better understand what I mean, just watch the video. She is much more eloquent than me, and she has a very important message to deliver about the power of story and its role in our prejudices and in our reality.
Her video reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from Mitch Albom's The five people you meet in Heaven:
"No story sits by itself. Sometimes stories meet at corners and sometimes they cover one another completely, like stones beneath a river."
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