...Langsiton Hughes has related the explosive potential of the lower class urban Negro in the following poem: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up...like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a sirupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" American urban policemen who...

...promising the harvest. "What happens to a dream deferred?" asked the celebrated black poet Langston Hughes. "Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore— and then run? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" Martin Luther King's dream of equality had...

...lives that we dedicate this story. KITGENE PORTER, President, I'ruitl-Iijoe yrigliborhood Corpuration. "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up...like rotten meat Or crust and sugar over — Like n syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode?" These words of the American...

...this dream. The modern American poet Langston Hughes, once asked this question in one of his poems, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" He was writing about the kind of dream which comes from the searching heart of humanity as it seeks...

...let me quote from a poem and end here, by Langston Hughes, fully 25 years before this day. He says: "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up...crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load, Or does it explode ?" REMARKS BY THE HONORABLE PATRICIA QUEENAN SHEEHAN MAYOR,...

...deferred. Cf . L. Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred, in Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (comp. 1951) : What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like...meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Or does it explode? The Board has succeeded admirably in showing that APSC, Jacobs, and Rosser are...

...Cf . L. Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred, in 1 Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (comp. 1951) : What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like...meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Or does it explode? The Board has succeeded admirably in showing that AFSC, Jacobs, and Rosser are...

...deferred. Cf . L. Hughes, Montage of a Dream Deferred, in Selected Poems of Langston Hughes (corop. 1951): What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like...meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet? Or does it explode? The Board has succeeded admirably in showing that AFSC, Jacobs, and Rosser are...

...Latin America, pp. 239-41. 3. Wise and Ross, The Invisible Government, p. 330. 4. January 17, 1961. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like...Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar overLike a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags Like a heavy load. Or does it explode? LANGSTON HUGHES...

...staff us well. I close asking a question posed by Langston Hughes in a poem 30 years ago, the poem is : "What happens to a dream deferred ? Does it dry up...crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it sags like a heavy load, Or does it explode ?" I think the answer to that lies very much in our own...