...deferred dreams can sometimes have a dark side. Thinking of race relations, Langston Hughes observed, "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up, like a raisin in the sun — or does it explode?" The ending of ECD's dream will soon become known — here's hoping it's an explosion...

...of performance in the workforce. The additional cost is a searing despair — Langston Hughes said, "What happens to a dream deferred — does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or does it explode?" Either way, depression or violence, the cost is plenty. CHANGING CONTEXT, CHANGING...

...example of the care and precision students can use in their own research projects. Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? African-American history contains the poetry of Langston Hughes, ranked as one of America's most illustrious...

...States. He was a leading figure of the HARLEM RENAISSANCE. * A famous line from one of his poems is "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?" Lorraine Hansbury, a celebrated African-American playwright, named her first play, A Raisin in the...

...the day in Harlem and communities like it, and possibly, prophetically, of the AfroAmerican future: "What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun?" "This poem on contemporary Harlem," Langston wrote as a preface, "is marked by conflicting changes,...

...truth about oppression— that it crushes peoples aspirations and causes them to become desperate: "What happens to a dream deferred?/ Does it dry up/ Like a raisin in the sun?" The issue of racism is never overtly mentioned until late in the play, when Mr. Lindner, a representative...

...linguistic and cultural mores of the people she is from. Transitional Utterance and Recuperative "Voice" What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like...heavy load. Or does it explode? — LANGSTON HUGHES, "A Dream Deferred" In his 1980 interview with Rene Depestre, Cesaire's three-point definition of negritude...

...Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed — I, too, am America. 1925, 1959 "Harlem" What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like...it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? 1951, 1959 Sources: (1) "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," Nation 122 (June 23, 1926), reprinted...

...in generation after generation. In the 1930s, Längsten Hughes wrote a poem, "Lenox Avenue Mural": What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like...it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? In a society of complex controls, both crude and refined, secret thoughts can often be found in the...

...rhetorically asks, 'What happens to a dream deferred?' and rhetorically responds that it might, . .. dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a...just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?' i6 Whether a higher-level frustration crusts or sags or explodes probably depends on how important...