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Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! - Countee Cullen Quotes

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth. - Countee Cullen Quotes

For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you soar, or the chain to bind you to earth.

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone. - Countee Cullen Quotes

[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary. - Countee Cullen Quotes

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.

Crowd

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. - Countee Cullen Quotes

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. - Countee Cullen Quotes

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. - Countee Cullen Quotes

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. - Countee Cullen Quotes

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

Your love to me was like an unread book . . . - Countee Cullen Quotes

Your love to me was like an unread book . . .

Books And Reading

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the "breaks." In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things -- read and write -- and wait.

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