Emily Dickinson (1830-86). Complete Poems. 1924.

A WORD is dead       

When it is said,         

Some say.     

I say it just    

Begins to live   5

That day          

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I, Too, Sing America by Langston Hughes 

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.

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.