I am listening to "Every Tone a Testimony". It's a 2CD set by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. I got it in a KPFK(radio) fund drive a few years back. Langston Hughes says....
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.

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