Countee Cullen Quotes

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• There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
• 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…
• Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!
• I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
• 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…
• The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
• Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
• The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.
• 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.
• I have a rendezvous with life.
• We were not made to eternally weep.
• My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
• 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…
• Your love to me was like an unread book.
• So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
• 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,…

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