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Alice Walker on what her father taught her about lying and the love-expanding capacity of telling the truth:
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“If we have any role at all, I think it’s the role of optimism, not blind or stupid optimism, but the kind which is meaningful, one that is rather close to that notion of the world which is not perfect, but which can be improved.”
The late and great Chinua Achebe on the meaning of life and the writer’s responsibility in society – a beautiful 1994 interview: