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The Negro Speaks of Rivers -By Langston Hughes

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.



Langston Hughes has a lot of pride in his heritage and loves to celebrate, in his writing, the existence of his people. He is aknowledged for his work during the harlem renaissance. This painting i think recognizes the beauty behind African American art, that Hughes so passionately writes about.

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