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Article: From the editor's desk.(Introduction)(works of Langston Hughes)(Editorial)
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- Journal of Research Administration
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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What happens to a dream come real?
Does it swell up
like a wheat shaft in the sun?
Or does it implode
into every living thing?
Langston Hughes, the famous African-American poet, would have preferred living in a social climate where he could have written the above rather than his starker, bitter words in A Dream Deferred. Hughes' original work was a deservedly harsh and stinging criticism of an American people whose founders fought for Freedom, but then over the centuries have denied that same gift to others by the atrocities of slavery and discrimination of every form.
This year, the yearned-for dream that pulsed beneath the hardened ...