Stories Can “Empower and Humanize” Ensuring diversity in school and classroom libraries benefits all students. It enables those who feel different to feel seen and have their experience validated, and it helps everyone learn empathy and understanding. “Stories have been used to dispossess and malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize,” Adichie said. She concluded: “When we reject the single story, when we realize there is never a single story about any place [or group of people], we regain a kind of paradise.”
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