Like our economic and political worlds, stories too are defined by the principle of nkali How they are told, who tells them, when they're told, how many stories are told, are really dependent on power.

I'm a storyteller.

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Plank number three Tell your story.

Narrator They took pictures.

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I told our story.

He told me the story of his life.

So let me just start with my story.

I talk about my story.

I will tell you end of story.

They ask questions, listen, and then speak.

I quote President Clinton when he spoke from this very rostrum

And I'm trying to tell stories only I can tell like this story.

Going to try to give you a taste of what comes out of that and I'm gonna talk about some other people that have lived this way, what their principles are, what they believe in but these are all just examples, to help you think about what you believe in and how you wanna live your life

All about the evils of slavery in America.

What is the good of telling it?

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Newton Aduaka tells the story of Ezra

In view of the foregoing, participants at the Workshop

I told our story.

We feel compelled to tell them.

The stories we tell about each other matter very much.

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Well, so, there's some showing as well as telling.

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I believe that these statements speak for themselves.

And everybody's a narrator, because everybody has a story to tell.

But now all of a sudden my job is very different, and my job is to be out here talking about it, talking about introversion.

It's a story of a product that tells a story.

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They tell myths and legends about love.

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But I'm actually here today to tell a story.

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Various witnesses reported horrifying details of the massacre.

The Mask related the encounter of pleasure and love.

I'll show you a good time there.

Would you please describe the incident in your own words?

Lorenzo came to me with a whole long story.

Allow me to relate my life story to pass the time.

I'm going to start and end this talk with a couple things that are carved in stone.