“They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another.”
“Our stories are what we have,” Our Good Mother says. “Our stories preserve us. we give them to one another. Our stories have value. Do you understand?”
“Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person.”
“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
“For my father there was no sharper way to understand a country than by listening to its stories.”