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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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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.

Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Jazz, to me, is one of the inherent expressions of Negro life in America: the eternal tom-tom beating in the Negro soul - the tom-tom of revolt against weariness in a white world, a world of subway trains, and work, work, work; the tom-tom of joy and laughter, and pain swallowed in a smile.

One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.

My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

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

I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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