Quotes by Countee Cullen - Page 1

I have a rendezvous with life.
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Life
Rendezvous
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We were not made to eternally weep.
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Your love to me was like an unread book.
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Book
Love Your Me
Love Me Your
Unread
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We shall not always plant while others reap
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Plant
Reap
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I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind
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God
Doubt
Kind
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Dame Poverty gave me my name, And Pain godfathered me.
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Dames
Names
Pain
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Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching.
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Ends
Heart
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Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.
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Book
Slumber
Thumbs
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Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.
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Forgive Me
Forgiving
Needs
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Quaint, outlandish heathen gods Black men fashion out of rods
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Men
Black
Fashion
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I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle.
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Battle
Black
Cutting
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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
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Atmosphere
Conservative
Methodists
Methodist
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My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
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Poetry
Giving
Way
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Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
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Grace
Life And Death
Life Is
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The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.
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Loss
Love Is
Lying
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If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
Countee Cullen / Poet
Ifs
Poet
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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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Black
Curious
Poet
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Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features
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God
Dark
Fashion
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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
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Agonizing
Dark
Heart
Seeds
Wait
Hide
Tend
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The night whose sable breast relieves the stark, White stars, is no less lovely being dark
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Dark
Night
Stars
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Ever at Thy glowing altar Must my heart grow sick and falter, Wishing He I served were black.
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Glowing
Heart
Sick
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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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Home
Heart
Keys
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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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Break
Hard Work
Secret
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What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set
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Past
Snow
Years
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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.
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Blood
Night
Pride
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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.
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Cutting
Sorrow
Wife
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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 / Poet
Giving
Heart
Lovers
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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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Dark
Prayer
Wine
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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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Earth
Liability
One Thing
Soar
Ties
Wings
Asset
Bind
Chain
Help
Wing
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The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
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Poetry
Truth
Hurt
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Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak With my mouth thus, in my heart Do I play a double part.
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Jesus
Father
Heart
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What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?
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Men
Stars
Strong
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There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.
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Hard Work
Indefinable
Order
Secret
Succeed
Three
Success Work Hard Work
Writer
Breaks
Call
Read
Getting
Except
Wait
No Secret
Suggest
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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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Feelings
People
White
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