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“Beauty needs a witness.”
― The Alabaster Girl
― The Alabaster Girl
“The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete. They make one story become the only story.”
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“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.”
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“There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable.”
― Half of a Yellow Sun
― Half of a Yellow Sun
“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
― Selected Letters
― Selected Letters
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