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April Is National Poetry Month! 

I, TOO SING, AMERICA

LANGSTON HUGHES

RENOWNED HARLEM RENAISSANCE POET X NOVELIST 

X ESSAYIST X PLAYWRIGHT X COLUMNIST X SOCIAL ACTIVIST

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 American.