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Harlem 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 s...

Kara Walker(American, born 1969). Gone: An Historical Romance of a Civil War as It Occurred b’tween the Dusky Thighs of One Young Negress and Her Heart. 1994. Paper, overall: 13 x 50′ The Museum of Modern Art, New York. New Heritage: Contem...