Langston Hughes: The Negro Speaks Of Rivers

Langston Hughes was a Negro intellectuals born in February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His left him when he was a young child, so his grandmother took care of him. He started to write poetry after reading some poems from Carl Sandburg and Walt Whitman.His first poem was “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”. He wrote this poem when he went to visit his father in Mexico. Langston Hughes did short stories and poetry. He lived in New York. He traveled to Africa and Span than Lived in Paris for a while to do his poetry. In 1940s Hughes helped make the lyric to a Broadway Musical called “Street Scene.” Langston Hughes legacy was his poetry throughout the his life. One Of his famous quotes is “My soul has grown deep like the rivers.” Still volumes of his