[W]e have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro… — Countee Cullen Demand Copy Share Image
“If You Should Go Love, leave me like the light, The gently passing day; We would not know, but for the night,… — Countee Cullen Love Copy Share Image
“I have no will to weep or sing, No least desire to pray or curse; The loss of love is a terrible… — Countee Cullen Death Copy Share Image
What is last year's snow to me, Last year's anything? The tree Budding yearly must forget How its past arose or set — Countee Cullen Forget Copy Share Image
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. — Countee Cullen Bleeds Copy Share Image
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. — Countee Cullen Coming home Copy Share Image
Lord, I fashion dark gods, too, Daring even to give You Dark despairing features — Countee Cullen Black Copy Share Image
For we must be one thing or the other, an asset or a liability, the sinew in your wing to help you… — Countee Cullen Assets Copy Share Image
Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, So I make an idle boast; Jesus of the twice-turned cheek Lamb of God, although I speak… — Countee Cullen Boast Copy Share Image
Death cut the strings that gave me life, And handed me to Sorrow, The only kind of middle wife My folks could… — Countee Cullen Cutting Copy Share Image
I cut my teeth as the black raccoon-- For implements of battle. — Countee Cullen Battle Copy Share Image
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