Best Quotes by Countee Cullen (Top 8)
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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
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If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
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My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
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The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
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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.
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Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
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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.
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[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.
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