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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

Topics: Asset Bind Chain Earth Help Liability Must One Thing Other Soar Thing Wing You Your

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

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Topics: Bleeds Dark Heart Hide Our Seeds Tend Wait

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I have a rendezvous with life.

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Topics: Life Rendezvous

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Your love to me was like an unread book.

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Topics: Book Like Love Me Unread Your

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

~Countee Cullen

Topics: Atmosphere Conservative Methodist

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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

Topics: Breaks Call Except Getting Hard Hard Work No Secret Order Read Secret Something Succeed Success Suggest Things Three Wait Which Work Write Writer

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: March 30th, 1903

Died: January 9th, 1946

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