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The single story creates stereotypes, and the problem with stereotypes is not that they are untrue, but that they are incomplete.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The [diaspora] writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out their message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange is lost. They should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry their peculiar experience.

 Why do I write? To investigate the mystery of existence.

                                                                                                  Chinua Achebe

                                                                                                              Jhumpa Lahiri

Write what should not be forgotten.

                                                            Isabel Allende

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