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

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Source : "Harlem" l. 1 (1951)

Langston Hughes

#Love Quotes #Dream Quotes #Sun Quotes

“It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.”
“Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.”
“In order to get somewhere in life, you need to have a vision. The vision brings you to the table. Without a vision, you just do what everybody else does and you are just there.”
“Thereâ€™s no romance in the details [of touring] anymore for me. But as soon as weâ€™re walking onstage and until we walk off after the encore, I feel totally alive and completely satisfied with my work.”
“The mystery is what prompted men to leave caves, to come out of the womb of nature.”
“If you would find happiness and joy, lose your life in some noble cause. A worthy purpose must be at the center of every worthy life.”
“If you give a cracker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is carve his initials in it. Fortunately, most crackers get over that once they're through puberty.”
“I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.”

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