As I mentioned earlier this week, I’m building a post about dashes. But I was also without my reference materials for most of this week because I was traveling. The travel also meant I was away from the internet for a while, so I can’t really give you a set of wonderful roundup links.
Instead, I want to share this TED talk from Chimamanda Adichie called “The Danger of a Single Story.” It’s a few years old (July 2009), but it’s pure gold. Adichie hits on a tangible function of stories: they help us learn how to see and understand other people. The more stories we experience—be it through literature, film, music—the more people we understand. If you limit the stories you know about people, you limit yourself.
So listen to Adichie’s stories. They’re worth hearing.
