Giorno di esami

[...]
I guess being colored doesn't make me not like
the same things other folks like who are other races.
So will my page be colored that I write?
Being me, it will not be white.
But it will be
a part of you, instructor.
You are white-
yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.
That's American.
[...]

Theme for English B (1949), Langstone Hughes.