QuoteQuest“What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore — And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over — like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?”
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- Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
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- reference · Secondary source
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Hughes, Langston. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Langston Hughes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
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