The Danger of a single story by Chimamanda Adichie

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Is life so sweet or peace so dear

To be purchased at the price of chains and slavery?

Our freedom for a little bread we sell

And drudge under some foolish master’s ken

Who rates us as if we peer with the pen.

At eve should be the time, they said

“To close their dreams in despair”

At that pleasant day

Our work was over

Our toil was done

At the set of the sun

We await our wages

But, the wages of death they did lay at our feet

More strong were it’s stench I could not bear

Someday,I’ll live above this

 In liberty or in death!

In my dreams

A platter of gold laid at my feet

The glory of sun set above my head

And my garden filled with flowers

I bask in such a life incredibly sustainable.