QuoteQuest“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.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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- Wikiquote
Context
"I, Too", in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959); it is also often referred to as "I, Too, Sing America"
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Hughes, Langston. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Langston Hughes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
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