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January 16, 2017
 

I, Too

 
Langston Hughes

About This Poem

 

“I, Too” is from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (Vintage, 1995).

 

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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