Langston Hughes is not bitter towards race relationships in America, although many of the lines can be interpret as conveying feelings of hatred. The spea

The final stanza of the poem details the speaker coming to realize what it means to be an American. The frequent use of the words \"me\" and \"you\" and several words that rhyme with it emphasizes the message of the stanza: That \"you\" and \"me\" (being the speaker and the instructor, and perhaps black American and white Americans as well) are closely connected and cannot be fairly examined without taking the other into account. We are always learning from each other and must consider this when we think about who we are, both as Americans and as human beings. The issue of blacks and whites in America does not have to be one that is approached with anger and resentment. If the speaker, given his situation, his minority in his class, and his implied poverty, can explore this issue objectively, so can we all.

ker asserts that he is the only colored student in his class. Later, as he is explaining how he and his instructor are inevitably connected, he mentions that oftentimes, he does not appreciate this connection. In one of the last lines of the poem, the speaker calls the instructor \"older - and white -/ and somewhat more free\" (39-40). These lines are seen as the speaker\'s expression of his anger or resentment towards the instructor, white people in general, or the upper hand that they seem to hold in American culture. When he says, \"Sometimes perhaps you don\'t want to be a part of me./ Nor do I often want to be a part o

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