Quotes About Narratives

That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.

There are just so many stories that are buried on family trees.

We live in a world of competing narratives. In the end, we have to decide for ourselves which is right. And having made that decision, we then need to inhabit the story we trust.

No other literature is subjected to such abuse, but practical commentaries will frequently cut biblical narratives into little pieces for the sake of attaching to these pieces some morals or other "relevant" applications.

Seeing is flux," he said. I mentioned the hidden narratives in his work, and he said that for him stories were like blood running through a body - paths of life. It was a revealing metaphor, and I never forgot it.

I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.

At the behest of the filmmakers and/or their estates, the titles of those movies based on true-life stories have been omitted.

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all narratives are lies, paths clumsily hacked through the knotted snarl of truth.

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

Growing up, usually when I saw a black female on television, she was either a broken character or sidekick.

It is a sure sign that a culture has reached a dead end when it is no longer intrigued by its myths.

It was an era when history butted up against mythology

There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque. Life is little more than a series of overlapping stories about who we are, where we came from, and how we struggle to survive. What we call news isn't news at all: wars, murders, famines, plagues—death in all its forms. It's folly to assign meaning to every chance event, yet we do it all the time.

There's something inherent in human nature that has us constructing narratives to explain a world that is otherwise chaotic and opaque.

Qué narrador no quiere oír historias nuevas? Las viejas nos consuelan y las nuevas nos enseñan. Necesitamos tanto las unas como las otras. Me parece que hay algo que no has comprendido. Tú y yo somos narradores y escuchamos para aprender. La gente sólo presta atención para vivir las historias. Tus relatos sobre K'os son buenos, pero ¿quién desea convertirse en K'os? ¿Te gustaría a ti ser ella?

Myths born in patriarchy offer a limited source of data on women. What they usually tell is how women react under patriarchy.

Narratives can make us understand. Photographs do something else: they haunt us.

Nunca ha dejado de extrañarme, por eso, que el vínculo más cercano del boom latinoamericano, dentro de la tradición de nuestra lengua, se remonte a esas narraciones que surgieron del Descubrimiento, y en muchos casos —pensemos en la lealtad que Vargas Llosa y García Márquez siempre le han jurado a la novela de caballerías, uno a Tirant le Blanc, y el otro a Amadís de Gaula— a momentos anteriores.

En un extremo están esas narraciones alucinadas sobre sirenas que no eran sirenas, sino manatíes, y grifos que no eran grifos, sino cóndores; en el otro está el esperpento valleinclanesco. En un extremo está el pariente remoto de la <>, esa osadía típicamente latinoamericana; en el otro, el antepasado inmediato de aquel fatigado cliché del dictador, que nuestra realidad política sigue dando por válido.

Being Indigenous, I feel very proud being an Australian and there are so many stories I want to tell.

All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.

I want to have a lengthy career. I want to play interesting characters. I want to tell beautiful stories, complex stories, deep stories.