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You never increase in anything you resent.
— Matthew Ashimolowo
I cut my teeth as the black raccoonFor 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
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
I have a rendezvous with life.
— Countee Cullen
And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely. — Countee Cullen
Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching.
— Countee Cullen
In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.
— Thomas Sowell
We are so very 'umble.
— Charles Dickens
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 write from the marrow of our bones.
— Adrienne Rich
What we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,White stars, is no less lovely being dark — Countee Cullen
I think the fundamental part of my technique is my vibrato.
— Robin Trower
Dame Poverty gave me my name,And Pain godfathered me. — Countee Cullen
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
— Countee Cullen
We shall not always plant while others reap
— Countee Cullen
Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.
— Countee Cullen
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
Your love to me was like an unread book.
— 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
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
Your productivity will double with increase physical activity.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
History is distinguishedfrom nature precisely by the fact that it transforms science and passion by means of will. — Albert Camus
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
A peaceful river attracts many people; similarly a person experiencing peaceful emotions catches the attention of others.
— Hina Hashmi
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
— Countee Cullen
A man is happiest with a girl who reads books." -
— Zan Perrion
I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind
— Countee Cullen
You can never discard too many bad ideas.
— Ashleigh Brilliant