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A poem by Langston Hughes that expresses his identity as a black man with a rich and diverse history and culture. He lists the roles and experiences of a Negro, from slavery to music, from Africa to America, from oppression to resistance.
12 de jun. de 2019 · Letra viva. TRADUÇÃO DO POEMA "NEGRO", DE LANGSTON HUGHES (1902-1967) Por: Cunha e Silva Filho Em: 12/06/2019, às 18H54. Negro. I am a Negro: Black as the night is black. Black like the depths of my Africa, I’ve been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots of Washington. I’ve been a worker:
Negro Lyrics. I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. I’ve been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots of...
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.
" The Negro Speaks of Rivers " is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 and crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico. It was first published the following year in The Crisis, starting Hughes's literary career.
Notes Hughes, “this is the mountain standing in the way of any true Negro art in America—this urge within the race toward whiteness, the desire to pour racial individuality into the mold of American standardization, and to be as little Negro and as much American as possible.”
Learn about Langston Hughes, a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and a major poet who portrayed the joys and hardships of working-class black lives. Explore his poems, novels, essays, and plays, and his influence on black literature and culture.
