Words raced thru his mind and his fingers ached to capture them all on paper.
Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be__f there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking__ut write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don__ pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don__ pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, __o Be Young, Gifted, and Black,_ given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.
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Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be__f there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking__ut write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don__ pass it up. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don__ pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, __o Be Young, Gifted, and Black,_ given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.
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