I, Too, Sing America
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.
4 comments:
If you happen to know the date this poem was written, please post it here and I will add it to my post. Thank you.
No doubt that United States is still a very bias society. If a PERSON is well qualified for president, why in earth that everyone make a such big deal? Only if people think we elected a BLACK to be our leader rather than we selected a qualified PERSON to be our leader!
I pray to people will have these kind of emotion only when a COW from Taxes ranch been elected as president of United States! It may soon be realized too(Bxsh III?)
Bigdog
Dream Deferred
Langston Hughes
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?
----
Now we know - a dream may be deferred, but it doesn't go away. It comes true one day eventually.
Here's to another dream - one day, conservatives will lie down with liberals.
And testing my luck, one more dream - one day, everyone man will realize that the woman he loves is always the most beautiful and stop gawking at beauty pageants.
Comment to anonymous: It would be nice when people stop referring to Obama as Black but as Mixed. I
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