a tribute to polyphony

So that is how to create a single story, show a people as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, and that is what they become.

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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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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.