Darker

Famous quotes containing the word darker:

“I, too, sing America.
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.”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)

“But things get darker as we move
To ask them: Whom must we get to know
To die, so you live and we know?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,”
—Langston Hughes (1902–1967)