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In Langston Hughes’ poem, he is shocked and confused by the fact that he is the only African American student in an all-white school. Have you ever been in the minority? Have you ever been "the only one" of anything (the only young person in an old-person group, the only member of your gender or your race)? How did it make you feel? Were you ever in a group where other people were discriminated against other than you? How did you feel about that? Did you try to do anything to make that person welcome in your group? Did you wish you could do something to include that "outsider" but were afraid of what the other members of the group would say about it?  Were you afraid of what others may think of you? 

In the end, Hughes says that we are all the same. Do you agree or disagree with that?  If you think we are basically different, explain how we are different.