All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood.
I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle. - Countee Cullen
I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.
- Countee Cullen
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
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.
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks. - Countee Cullen
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. - Countee Cullen
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
We were not made to eternally weep. - Countee Cullen
We were not made to eternally weep.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. - Countee Cullen
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When… - Countee Cullen
What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When…
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. - Countee Cullen
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
I have a rendezvous with life. - Countee Cullen
I have a rendezvous with life.
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