Excellent poem! Thanks for this...It made me feel good reading it, my friend...
_____ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:scifino...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of keithbjohn...@comcast.net Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 4:04 PM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Yuletide Greetings Thanks for posting. You come up with the coolest stuff! Funny: I was looking up a poem by Hughes just yesterday, one that I remembered from long ago, that I use as sort of a self-motto. It's "I, Too Sing, America". I love its message of saying that we are waiting, biding our time, eating and grinning and perhaps seeming weak, but one day--no way can we be kept down. This is it: 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. -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "ravenadal" <ravena...@yahoo. <mailto:ravenadal%40yahoo.com> com> > "We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our > individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If White people > are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter...If > colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, their > displeasure doesn't matter either..." > > ~Langston Hughes, 1926 > > Merry Christmas, one and all! > > ~rave! > >
