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

He really your dad? Yes. On my father's side. — Peter Heller

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

we do not choose our circumstances, the prejudices that we inherit, or our privilege or lack of it. It — Phoebe Robinson

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

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

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

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

I have a rendezvous with life. — Countee Cullen

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

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

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

We were not made to eternally weep. — Countee Cullen

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

We shall not always plant while others reap — Countee Cullen

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

May the Lord protect me as the world gets hectic. My voice projected, my life reflected. — Nicki Minaj

Success in America - what I find with my homeland, nothing lasts very long. Europe is different. You're right there with them until you come back. — Tina Turner

I will give you the best I have. — George C. Marshall

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

I have gotten to a point in my life where I don't want to have dinner with someone I don't like. — John Frankenheimer

I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else. — Kristen Schaal

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

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

Get addicted to peace, talk about it all day and may be all night. Drink it, live it and love it. It will change the world. — Debasish Mridha

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

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

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

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere. — Soren Kierkegaard

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

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

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

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

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

Remember that it's okay to ask for help when you're stumped, because sometimes you really can't be expected to handle everything alone. — Martha Beck

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

Tomorrow will be better.' It was already tomorrow. — Barry England

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

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