read the lines from langston hughes poem "i, too, sing America" but i laugh, and eat well, and grow strong the lines promoted cultural change in the untied states in the mid-1900s because they

The idea behind the poems and the lines was that African-Americans were growing and were people of culture and that they were also intelligent and educated. This was the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance era and this is what the writers and artists of the time wanted to promote and raise awareness about.