The Negro Speaks of Rivers

"I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins."

Langston Hughes express the Harlem Renaissance by expressing African Americans culture. They've seen many things, and have been here along time.They know ancient rivers and pyramids before any one discovered them. "I've known rivers:Ancient, dusky rivers." I feel sad when I read this poem, because the author expresses his feeling with the line, "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." I feel like they had everything, they were happy with themselves where they were, until they became slaves.