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The speaker is saying she values her community’s history and feels personally responsible for preserving and sharing it. She connects that responsibility to telling stories about her own background and the backgrounds of her ancestors.
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About Lynn Nottage
American playwright
Lynn Nottage is an American playwright known for writing about working-class lives, especially Black experience. She is the first woman to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama twice. She received the prize in 2009 for Ruined and again in 2017 for Sweat. Her plays often turn to labor, hardship, and the social realities facing ordinary people.
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