sing america

Sometimes you've just gotta throw up your hands and post some real classic 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.

—Langston Hughes (1902-1967), "I, Too," in this case from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage Books, 2004), but first published in 1926.