“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.”
“I, Too” l. 16 (1925)
Excerpted from: Schapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.
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