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Quotes By Countee Cullen

I have a rendezvous with life.

Countee Cullen
LifeRendezvous

Your love to me was like an unread book.

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LoveBook Unread

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

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Atmosphere Methodist

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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Chain Earth Help

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

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Dark Heart Wait

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.

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SuccessWorkThree
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