QuoteQuest“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.”
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AttributedRecorded by a reliable secondary source; exact wording may differ.
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
- Held by
- Wikiquote
Context
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers", written in 1920, published in The Weary Blues (1926)
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Hughes, Langston. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Langston Hughes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
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