Theme for English B

BY LANGSTON HUGHES

The instructor said,

      Go home and write
      a page tonight.
      And let that page come out of you –
      Then, it will be true.

I wonder if it’s that simple?
I am twenty-two, colored, born in Winston-Salem.   
I went to school there, then Durham, then here   
to this college on the hill above Harlem.   
I am the only colored student in my class.