The play is done, the crowds depart and see That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, Swart victim of a newer Calvary.
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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
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
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Dead men alone are satiate;
They sleep and dream and have no weight,
To curb their rest, of love or hate.
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The key to all strange things is in thy heart.... My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
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If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
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Why should she think it devil's art
That all my songs should be
Of love and lovers, broken heart,
And wild sweet agony?
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