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.
Unlike the first line, in which the narrator is only “singing America,” he is now establishing an identity as an American. “Too” dictates that said identity is no different than that of the white majority.
I Too