Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen
Countee Cullen, born as Coleman Rutherford, was an African American poet, author and scholar who was a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He pronounced his name "Coun-tay", not "Coun-tee"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 May 1903
CityLexington, KY
CountryUnited States of America
plant reap
We shall not always plant while others reap
giving poetry way
My poetry has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
heart home keys
The key to all strange things is in thy heart..../ My spirit has come home, that sailed the doubtful seas.
atmosphere conservative methodists
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
hard-work secret break
There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.
hurt add action
The truth is... everything counts. Everything. Everything we do and everything we say. Everything helps or hurts; everything adds to or takes away from someone else.
crowds hung tortured twisted victim
The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.