Dream Quote by Langston Hughes

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?”

Langston Hughes

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Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

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Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

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Perhaps the mission of an artist is to interpret beauty to people - the beauty within themselves.

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Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in our country…

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We Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Censorship for us begins at the color line.

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