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Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen föddes den May 30th 1903 och dog den 9 January 1946 - US writer
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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. |
| If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. |
| If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. |
| My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me. |
| So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. |
| The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. |
| The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary. |
| 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. |
| Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing! |
| Your love to me was like an unread book . . . |
| [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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