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Countee Cullen Quotes
«Your love to me was like an unread book . . .»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)
«So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)
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agonized, agonizing, bleeding heart, bleeds, In The Dark, Seeds
«Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)
«The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)
«[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)
«The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)
«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.»
Author: Countee Cullen
(Poet)