Countee Cullen Quotes

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.
Countee Cullen

Help, Earth, Chain

I have a rendezvous with life.
Countee Cullen

Life, Rendezvous

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

Heart, Dark, Wait

Your love to me was like an unread book.
Countee Cullen

I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
Countee Cullen

Atmosphere, Methodist, Reared

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.
Countee Cullen

Success, Work, Hard

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 30, 1903

Died: January 9, 1946

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