Black Quote by Caroline Knapp

Black storytelling can be about anything, absolutely anything, and within that it can be as enriching, as complex, beautiful, ugly as anything else. We…

— Paterson Joseph

“Story is the mechanism by which we live, express, understand, and evolve. Story is more than just equipment for living — it’s life itself.…

— Derek Rydall

A culture cannot evolve without honest, powerful storytelling. When a society repeatedly experiences glossy, hollowed-out, pseudo-stories, it degenerates. We need true satires and tragedies,…

— Robert McKee

I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in…

— Paul Bettany

Narrative storytelling is wired into our humanity.

— Kevin Reilly

We have, as human beings, a storytelling problem. We're a bit too quick to come up with explanations for things we don't really have…

— Malcolm Gladwell

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

— Scott Turow

Our lives are a long series of acquiring and then sloughing narratives.

— Melissa Febos

Cultural analysis is intrinsically incomplete. And, worse than that, the more deeply it goes the less complete it is.

— Clifford Geertz

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

— Madeleine L'Engle

The power of storytelling is exactly this: to bridge the gaps where everything else has crumbled.

— Paulo Coelho

Because when you have all white men in the writers' room trying to tell the perspective of cultural appropriation or what it's like to…

— Lexi Underwood