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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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Lorraine Hansberry
Age: 34 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 19
Died: 1965
Died: January 12
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Lorraine Vivian Hansberry
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