"What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore β And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over β like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?"
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Langston Hughes, in "Harlem" in Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951).
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