They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed —
I, too, am America.


"I, Too, Sing America," in the magazine Survey Graphic (March 1925); reprinted in Selected Poems (1959).

Langston Hughes Quotes

They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed — I, too, am America.

They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed — I, too, am America.

They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed — I, too, am America.

They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed — I, too, am America.