"Am ___ early?"

Classic Langston Hughes poem

Langston Hughes poem

Words of agreement

"___, sing America": Langston Hughes

"Am ___ late?"

Hughes poem with the line "They send me to eat in the kitchen"

Poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen'"

"___, dislike it" (start of Marianne Moore's "Poetry")

"Am ___ fat?"

"Was ___ hard ...?"

Poem referencing "the darker brother"

Langston Hughes poem with the lines "Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen,' / Then"

Langston Hughes poem with the lines "They send me to eat in the kitchen / When company comes"

"Was ___ hard on them?"

"Me as well"

Hughes poem that mentions "the darker brother"

"And ___ . . . have not been idle": Russell