Countee Cullen Quotes

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

- Countee Cullen

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If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET. - Countee Cullen

The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary. - Countee Cullen

The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas. - Countee Cullen