| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 29198 |
| QUOTATION: | What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Langston Hughes (19021967), U.S. poet. Lenox Avenue Mural (l. 13). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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