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I, too, sing America.</div>
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I am the darker brother.<br clear="none">
They send me to eat in the kitchen<br clear="none">
When company comes,<br clear="none">
But I laugh,<br clear="none">
And eat well,<br clear="none">
And grow strong.</div>
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Tomorrow,<br clear="none">
I’ll be at the table<br clear="none">
When company comes.<br clear="none">
Nobody’ll dare<br clear="none">
Say to me,<br clear="none">
“Eat in the kitchen,”<br clear="none">
Then.</div>
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Besides,<br clear="none">
They’ll see how beautiful I am<br clear="none">
And be ashamed—</div>
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I, too, am America.</div>
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“I, Too” was originally published under the title “Epilogue” in Hughes’s first book, <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Weary Blues </em>(Knopf, 1926).</div>
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Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He is the author of <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The Weary Blues</em> (Knopf, 1926) and <em style="border-width: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Montage of a Dream Deferred</em>
(Holt, 1951), among other works. He died on May 22, 1967 in New York City.</div>
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