Street Corner Series

NE 28th Ave at NE Broadway.

This is one of the intersections in my neighborhood, shopping, food, restaurants, etc.  In this shot is a panel above the crosswalk signal with a poetry quotation (probably best seen in large).  I was debating whether to just blip the panel and lights but decided I wanted to show it in its surroundings.  There are a couple of these panels dotted around this pocket going along NE 28th into the Sullivan's Gulch neighborhood.

The full poem:

I, Too
by Langston Hughes

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed-

I, too, am America.