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Countee Cullen quotes: I cut my teeth as the black raccoonFor implements of battle.

I cut my teeth as the black raccoon
For implements of battle.

Countee Cullen quotes: Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

Countee Cullen quotes: Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,Daring even to give YouDark despairing features

Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features

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

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: 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.

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.

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

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

Countee Cullen quotes: Man dreams that he is more than a leaf on a tree.'-Leaves by Countee Cullen

Man dreams that he is more than a leaf on a tree.'
-Leaves by Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen quotes: I have a rendezvous with life.

I have a rendezvous with life.

Countee Cullen quotes: And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely.

And if I please you so, my lover,
Remember praise is comely.

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

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

Countee Cullen quotes: I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

Countee Cullen quotes: Dame Poverty gave me my name,And Pain godfathered me.

Dame Poverty gave me my name,
And Pain godfathered me.

Countee Cullen quotes: The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,White stars, is no less lovely being dark

The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
White stars, is no less lovely being dark

Countee Cullen quotes: In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

Countee Cullen quotes: We shall not always plant while others reap

We shall not always plant while others reap

Countee Cullen quotes: We were not made to eternally weep.

We were not made to eternally weep.

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

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

Countee Cullen quotes: Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching.

Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching.

Countee Cullen quotes: I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

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

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

Countee Cullen quotes: There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

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

Countee Cullen quotes: Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

Give but a grain of the heart's rich seed, Confine some under cover, And when love goes, bid him God-speed. And find another lover.

Countee Cullen quotes: Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

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

Countee Cullen quotes: What is last year's snow to me,Last year's anything? The treeBudding yearly must forgetHow its past arose or set

What is last year's snow to me,
Last year's anything? The tree
Budding yearly must forget
How its past arose or set

Countee Cullen quotes: Death cut the strings that gave me life,And handed me to Sorrow,The only kind of middle wifeMy folks could beg or borrow.

Death cut the strings that gave me life,
And handed me to Sorrow,
The only kind of middle wife
My folks could beg or borrow.

Countee Cullen quotes: Your love to me was like an unread book.

Your love to me was like an unread book.

Countee Cullen quotes: The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

Countee Cullen quotes: Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

Countee Cullen quotes: Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.

Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.