Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be–if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking–but 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’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, ” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964. . Lorraine Hansberry
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