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Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,
And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,
Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!
Claude McKay1889–1948America (1921)In context
- America
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 Hughes1901–1967I, Too (1925)In context
- America
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
Countee Cullen1903–1946Yet Do I Marvel (1925)In context
- Poetry
I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
William Shakespeare1564–1616The Merchant of Venice (c. 1597), Act III, Scene I, spoken by ShylockIn context
- Justice
I, too, am America.
Langston Hughes1901–1967I, Too (1925)In context
- America
The problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color line.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Souls of Black Folk (1903), The ForethoughtIn context
- History
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Chapter IIn context
- Money
To those who follow the Way there is neither black nor white, Hind nor Bhotiyal. We be all souls seeking escape.
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936Kim (1901), Chapter XIIIn context
- Religion
There’s no race, no religion, no class system, no color – nothing – no sexual orientation, that makes us better than anyone else. We’re all deserving of love.
Sandra Bullockborn 1964Parade interview (2009)
- Love