They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes" (Hughes 2-4). ... Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. ... And I doubted then, that, with his desire to run away spiritually from his race, this boy would ever be a great poet" (Borden 2). ...
In the poem, he is sent to the kitchen to eat when there are visitors coming to the house. ... In "I, Too,"" Hughes depicts himself as a servant who is sent to eat in the kitchen when company comes. ... He also experienced segregation in theaters, YMCA, Boy Scouts, and even at a child's party. ...
Richard only keeps $5 for himself, living in a room above the Daltons kitchen. ... "Black Boy" a novel also written by Richard Wright is another novel which, a young black man has to deal with racism throughout his life. ... This relates to criticism of the black community for allowing themselves to be subservient to whites Richard as a black boy is isolated from the world of the white people, but this isolation is felt with in his own race as well. ...
