If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
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The key to all strange things is in thy heart.... My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.Countee Cullen
Why should she think it devil's art
That all my songs should be
Of love and lovers, broken heart,
And wild sweet agony?
Countee Cullen
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing; To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
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Your love to me was like an unread book.
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And yet my father's eyes can boast
How full his life has been;
There haunts them yet the languid ghost
Of some still sacred sin.
Countee Cullen
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