Lorraine Hansberry - I am a writer. I suppose ...

I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that man has is art, and I am audacious enough to think of myself as an artist - that there is both joy and beauty and illumination and communion between people to be achieved through the dissection of personality.

Lorraine Hansberry

American Playwright

Born: May 19, 1930

Died: Jan 12, 1965

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Art, Myself, Man, People, Joy, Personality, Gift, Beauty, Think, Enough, Both, Through, Writer, Highest, Between, Suppose, Audacious, Am, Artist, Achieved, Communion, Illumination

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