The key to all strange things is in thy heart.... My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
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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
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.
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I have no will to weep or sing,
No least desire to pray or curse;
The loss of love is a terrible thing;
They lie who say that death is worse.
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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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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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