1. Langston Hughes
At the age of 17, while on a train ride to Mexico, Hughes wrote the infamous poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers". ... "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". ... "I've seen its (the Mississippi River) muddy bosom turn all / golden in the sunset." ... The black mother and her progeny, who abandoned their spirituality but refined it into music, poetry and dance, are now seen for their true value, revealed in the light as golden," (Bolan). ... Let them look back on a golden...
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