A Quote by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes
American - Novelist
February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967

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

Langston Hughes

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

Langston Hughes

Believe and trust because God is faithful! I'll leave you with this: a dream deferred is not a dream denied. For God can bless you with a dream bigger than the one you ever had for yourself. He did it for me, and He can do it for you!

David A. R. White

A dream deferred is a dream denied.

Langston Hughes

Hope is a dream deferred.

Jennifer Stone

I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because they were never naive enough or brazen enough to say, 'Let me do this.'

Sterling K. Brown

There's a certain amount of traveling in a dream deferred.

Langston Hughes

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school - and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

I stumbled into acting and just loved it. I deferred law school-and I'm still deferred.

Portia de Rossi

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?

Langston Hughes

I don't know anyone who ever got deferred pay. I'm the first of my friends to ever actually get a deferred paycheck.

Heather Donahue

Good morning, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? • • • • You think It's a happy beat?

Langston Hughes

Good evening, daddy! Ain't you heard The boogie-woogie rumble Of a dream deferred? Trilling the treble And twining the bass Into midnight ruffles Of cat-gut lace.

Langston Hughes

We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

A. S. Byatt

And yet shall Love himself be heard,Though long deferred, though long deferred:O'er the modern waste a dove hath whirred:Music is Love in search of a word.

Sidney Lanier

You always dream of being number one. You don't dream of being two, three or four when you're a young kid. I want to be the first overall pick. I feel like that would be a dream come true if that happens.

Jack Hughes

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