Read the lines from Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too, Sing America."I am the darker brother.They send me to eat in the kitchenWhen company comes,But I laugh,And eat well,And grow strong.

“Darker brother” presents the speaker as a brother within a shared, metaphorical American family. Although he is excluded from eating with company, his words suggest that he belongs just as much as the others do; the line is not simply identifying a literal sibling.

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