Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
Quotes from Montage of a Dream Deferred — Langston Hughes
1902–1967 United States
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A certain amount
of nothing
in a dream deferred.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
There’s a certain
amount of traveling
in a dream deferred.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
You talk like they
don’t kick dreams
around downtown.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
You are white —
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
My motto,
As I live and learn,
is:
Dig And Be Dug
In Return.
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
What happens
to a dream deferred?
Daddy, ain’t you heard?
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Dream within a dream,
Our dream deferred.
Good morning, daddy!
Ain’t you heard?
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Good evening, daddy
I know you’ve heard
The boogie-woogie rumble
Of a dream deferred
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Why should it be my loneliness,
Why should it be my song,
Why should it be my dream
deferred
overlong?
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Langston Hughes (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.