Possible Clues:

• Hughes poem with the line 'They send me to eat in the kitchen'
• Am-early connector
• 'Was ___ hard ...?'
• Langston Hughes classic '___, Sing America'
• "Am ___ loud?"
• 'Am ___ loud?'
• 'Am -- late?'
• "Am __ sensitive?"
• Hughes poem about racial inequality
• Langston Hughes poem with the lines 'Nobody'll dare / Say to me, / 'Eat in the kitchen,' / Then'