Title: 7 Powerful Poems About Injustice & Racial Discrimination | Hive Life
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7 Powerful Poems About Injustice & Racial Discrimination
You’re Not Black – Amy Saunders
I, Too (1926) – Langston Hughes
Immigrant Blues – Li-Young Lee
Home – Warsan Shire
Caged Bird (1983) – Maya Angelou
After Zuko (2019) – Dave Harris
Rosa (1998) – Rita Dove
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Content: 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. Born in 1902, Langston Hughes was an African American poet, social activist, novelist, and playwright. He wrote I, Too to illustrate the ostracisation he faced throughout his life, feeling as though he were constantly being pushed to the outer edges of society, a society run by the white majority. Known for conveying the good and the bad of life as an African American in the early 1900’s, Hughes was an intellectual who fought to portray the reality of life as a black person. Having grown up with a father who’d rejected his own people, Hughes became a significant figure for his honest work in literature as he strived to honour the real trials and tribulations that black people in America go through. Immigrant Blues – Li-Young Lee
People have been trying to kill me since I was born,
a man tells his son, trying to explain
the wisdom of learning a second tongue.