Originally named POEM, later renamed YOUTH, by Langston Hughes Also MY PEOPLE

Statue created in 1975, in Lawrence Kansas, portraying Langston Hughes as a boy holding a book by W.E.B. DuBois, delivering the Saturday Evening Post  

We have tomorrow
Bright before us
Like a flame

Yesterday, a night-gone thing
A sun-down name

And dawn today
Broad arch above the road we came
We march!

published as Poem in 1924, and as Youth in 1932

photo of Tuskegee Airmen from Wikipedia.org

My People

The night is beautiful,
So the faces of my people.

The stars are beautiful,
So the eyes of my people

Beautiful, also, is the sun.
Beautiful, also, are the souls of my people.