their dreams was tearing each other a part. Their American dream was shattered, like Laura’s glass unicorn. In Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, Mama explains how dreams for black people are fulfilled, “Big Walter used to say, he’d get right wet in the eyes sometimes, lean his head back with the water standing in his eyes and say, “Seem like God didn’t see fit to give the black man nothing but dreams – but He did give us children to make them dreams seem worthwhile” (Hansberry 1.1.46). This…
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