In honor of today

I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
. . . When company comes."
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.

— Langston Hughes (1934)