A Dream Deferred "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 sags
like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?"
-- Langston Hughes
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This performance was recorded at the Westbury Music Fair (Long Island, NY) on April 7, 1968, three days after the death of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Nina Simone dedicated her performance to King's memory. The song was written by her bass player, Gene Taylor. An unedited version of this performance appears on the compilation album Forever Young, Gifted and Black: Songs of Freedom & Spirit (RCA Victor – 2006).