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I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. universality, i think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
-Lorraine Hansberry
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I Believe That One Of The Most

Lorraine Hansberry
I believe that one of the most sound ideas in dramatic writing is that in order to create the universal, you must pay very great attention to the specific. universality, i think, emerges from truthful identity of what is.
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