All throughout our lives, we selectively draw on selected shavings of life events and reflect upon them through consciousness, creating an arranged catalogue of senses, faculties, and mental activities that compose our personal life story.
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. 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.
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black: An Informal Autobiography
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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. 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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