And while i am thinking about Langston Hughes....

there is this one that i first heard in the 9th grade, and still love, and which means THAT MUCH more on this day. Thanks to Ethel Clarke for introducing our young, impressionable minds to Langston Hughes, way back in the day.

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 sit 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.