 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1965 - 122 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1975 - 468 psl.
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Government Operations - 1967 - 1506 psl.
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor - 1967 - 926 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1968 - 68 psl.
...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,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity - 1970 - 1580 psl.
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity - 1970 - 418 psl.
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity - 1970 - 1506 psl.
...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... | |
 | Erik Barnouw - 1970 - 426 psl.
...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... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Labor and Public Welfare - 1971 - 1264 psl.
...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... | |
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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? 
