Langston Hughes: Excerpt from “Theme for English B”

“As I learn from you,

I guess you learn from me—

although you’re older—and

white

and somewhat more free.

This is my page for English B.”

Langston Hughes

“Theme for English B l. 37″ (1951)

Excerpted from: Shapiro, Fred, ed. The Yale Book of Quotations. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006.