Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• 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

  People, Broken, Empowering

  "The danger of a single story". TED Talks, www.ted.com. July 2009.

• Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  People, Broken, Stories

  "The danger of a single story". TED conference, www.ted.com. July 2009.

• It is easy to romanticize poverty, to see poor people as inherently lacking agency and will. It is easy to strip them of human dignity, to reduce them to objects of pity. This has never been clearer than in the view of Africa from the American media, in which we are shown poverty and conflicts without any context.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Badass, Agency, Views

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin