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J Saunders Redding: The writer's ultimate...

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The writer's ultimate purpose is to use his gifts to develop man's awareness of himself so that he, man, can become a better instrument for living together with other men. This sense of identity is the root by which all honest creative effort is fed.

Source: The Negro Writer and His Relationship to His Roots, Address at the First Conference of Negro Writers, Mar 1959.
-- J Saunders Redding, (Oct 13 1906-1988), US historian, educator, essayist, critic; He was a prolific critic and essayist whose works include To Make a Poet Black, and the autobiography, No Day of Triumph.


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