We have always resented the natural inclination of most white people to demand spirituals the moment it is known that a Negro is about to sing. So often the request has seemed to savor of the feeling that we could do this and this alone.
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Yet do I marvel at this curious thing; To make a poet black, and bid him sing.Countee Cullen
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.
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My poetry, I should think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
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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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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
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I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
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