{"id":1062,"date":"2019-07-24T16:21:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2019-07-24T16:21:45","modified_gmt":"2019-07-24T16:21:45","slug":"i-too-by-langston-hughes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/i-too-by-langston-hughes\/","title":{"rendered":"I, Too by Langston Hughes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I, Too<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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by Langston Hughes\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n

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I, too, sing America.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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I am the darker brother.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
They send me to eat in the kitchen<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
When company comes,<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
But I laugh,<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
And eat well,<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
And grow strong.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Tomorrow,<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
I\u2019ll be at the table<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
When company comes.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Nobody\u2019ll dare<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Say to me,<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
\u201cEat in the kitchen,\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
Then.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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Besides,<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
They\u2019ll see how beautiful I am<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
And be ashamed\u2014<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n
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I, too, am America.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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I, Too by Langston Hughes\u00a0 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\u2019ll be at the table When company comes. Nobody\u2019ll dare Say to me, \u201cEat in the kitchen,\u201d Then. Besides, They\u2019ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1064,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1065,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/1065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iforcolor.org\/word\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}