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poem.docxLangston Hughes
I, Too BY LANGSTON HUGHES I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then.
Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed—
I, too, am America.
Langston Hughes, “I, Too” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold Ober Associates Incorporated. Source: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Books, 2004) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/47558/i-too
