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July 4, 2015
 

I, Too

 
Langston Hughes

About This Poem

 

“I, Too” was originally published under the title “Epilogue” in Hughes’s first book, The Weary Blues (Knopf, 1926).

 

Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He is the author of The Weary Blues (Knopf, 1926) and Montage of a Dream Deferred (Holt, 1951), among other works. He died on May 22, 1967 in New York City.

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