“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.”

— Langston Hughes

"The Negro Speaks of Rivers," from The Weary Blues (1926)

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American writer and social activist 1902–1967

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