Harlem
by Langston Hughes
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?
Lorraine Hansberry found her inspiration to write A Raisin in the Sun from the Langston Hughes poem Harlem as well as from her own life experiences growing up in a hostile, racially charged environment. A Raisin in the Sun was produced in 1959, as not only the first African-American play to be produced on Broadway, but as
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