"I, Too"

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Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC
“I, Too” by Langston Hughes, 1926

📸 “The American Flag: Photographs from the National Museum of African American History and Culture”
https://s.si.edu/4eXo1TO

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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.

[Phoenix61]

1. That was one of my favorites. The art works were

amazing. Spent a lot of time there and learned a lot.