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8/27/13 10:31 PMTheme for English B by Langston Hughes : The Poetry FoundationPage 1 of 2http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177397Theme for English BBY LANGSTON HUGHESThe instructor said, Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you— Then, it will be true.I wonder if it’s that simple?I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem. I went to school there, then Durham, then here to this college on the hill above Harlem. I am the only colored student in my class. The steps from the hill lead down into Harlem, through a park, then I cross St. Nicholas, Eighth Avenue, Seventh, and I come to the Y, the Harlem Branch Y, where I take the elevator up to my room, sit down, and write this page:It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me at twenty-two, my age. But I guess I’m whatI feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.hear you, hear me—we two—you, me, talk on this page. (I hear New York, too.) Me—who?Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present,or records—Bessie, bop, or Bach.I guess being colored doesn’t make me not likethe 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 bea part of you, instructor.You are white—yet a part of me, as I am a part of you.That’s American.Sometimes perhaps you don’t want to be a part of me. Home > Poems & Poets > Theme for English B
8/27/13 10:31 PMTheme for English B by Langston Hughes : The Poetry FoundationPage 2 of 2http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177397Nor do I often want to be a part of you.But we are, that’s true!As I learn from you,I guess you learn from me—although you’re older—and white—and somewhat more free.This is my page for English B.Langston Hughes, “Theme for English B” from Collected Poems. Copyright © 1994 by The Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted with the permission of Harold OberAssociates Incorporated.Source: Selected Poems (Vintage Books, 1959)