Giving Quote by Countee Cullen

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

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

— Countee Cullen

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

— Countee Cullen

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

— Countee Cullen

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

— Countee Cullen

I have a rendezvous with life.

— Countee Cullen

“My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me”

— Countee Cullen

All day long and all night through, One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in…

— Countee Cullen

Africa? A book one thumbs Listlessly, till slumber comes.

— Countee Cullen

What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose…

— Countee Cullen

Your love to me was like an unread book.

— Countee Cullen

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

— Countee Cullen