<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431604" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Theme for English B</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The instructor said,</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Go home and write<br>a page tonight.<br>And let that page come out of you--<br>Then, it will be true.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wonder if it's that simple?<br>I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.<br>I went to school there, then Durham, then here<br>to this college on the hill above Harlem.<br>I am the only colored student in my class.<br>The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem,<br>through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas,<br>Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y,<br>the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator<br>up to my room, sit down, and write this page:</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's not easy to know what is true for you or me <br>at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I'm what <br>I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you:<br>hear you, hear me--we two--you, me, talk on this page.<br>(I hear New York, too.) Me--who?<br>Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.<br>I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.<br>I like a pipe for a Christmas present,<br>or records--Bessie, bop, or Bach.<br>I guess being colored doesn't make me not like<br>the same things other folks like who are other races.<br>So will my page be colored that I write?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Being me, it will not be white. <br>But it will be<br>a part of you, instructor. <br>You are white-- <br>yet a part of me, as I am a part of you. <br>That's American.<br>Sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me. <br>Nor do I often want to be a part of you.<br>But we are, that's true! <br>As I learn from you, <br>I guess you learn from me-- <br>although you're older--and white-- <br>and somewhat more free.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is my page for English B.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Langston+Hughes">Langston Hughes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=431604" data-title="Theme for English B de Langston Hughes" data-description="The instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-- Then, it will be true. I wonder if it's that simple? I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to th..."></div> </div> </div>

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