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Countee Cullen
Your love to...
Your love to me was like an unread book . . .
Source: Bright Bindings, The Black...
So in the...
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
My poetry, I...
My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
There is no...
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the breaks. In order...
The play is...
The play is done, the crowds depart; and see
That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree,
Swart victim of a...
Yet do I...
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
The key to...
The key to all strange things is in thy heart....
My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful...
If I am...
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
For we must...
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...
[W]e have always...
[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known...
Your love to...
Your love to me was like an unread book . . .
Source: Bright Bindings, The Black...
So in the...
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,
And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
My poetry, I...
My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
There is no...
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call the breaks. In order...
The play is...
The play is done, the crowds depart; and see
That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree,
Swart victim of a...
Yet do I...
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
The key to...
The key to all strange things is in thy heart....
My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful...
If I am...
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
For we must...
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...
[W]e have always...
[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known...