Top 33 Countee Cullen Quotes

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

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#2. So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

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#3. Your love to me was like an unread book.

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#4. I have a rendezvous with life.

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#5. [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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#6. There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.

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#7. We were not made to eternally weep.

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#8. 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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#9. Never love with all your heart, It only ends in aching.

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#10. The night whose sable breast relieves the stark,
White stars, is no less lovely being dark

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#11. 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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#12. 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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#13. I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind

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#14. Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.

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#15. And if I please you so, my lover,
Remember praise is comely.

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#16. The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

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#17. In order for a writer to succeed, I suggest three things - read and write - and wait.

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#18. I cut my teeth as the black raccoon
For implements of battle.

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#19. 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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#20. I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.

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

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#23. 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.

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

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#25. My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me

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#26. If You Should Go
Love, leave me like the light,
The gently passing day;
We would not know, but for the night,
When it has slipped away.
Go quietly; a dream,
When done, should leave no trace
That it has lived, except a gleam
Across the dreamer's face.

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#27. We shall not always plant while others reap

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#28. Dame Poverty gave me my name,
And Pain godfathered me.

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#29. 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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#30. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.

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#31. 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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#32. Lord, I fashion dark gods, too,
Daring even to give You
Dark despairing features

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#33. If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

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