Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.
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.
- Countee Cullen
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.
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.
Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features - Countee Cullen
Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features
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.
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.
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.
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