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Langston Hughes.
“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Langston Hughes (1901–1967) was an American poet, novelist, playwright and social activist. An early innovator of jazz poetry, he is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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- Joplin, Missouri, USA
- Lived
- 1901 – 1967
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