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
Countee Cullen quotes about
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.
atmosphere conservative methodists
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
plant reap
We shall not always plant while others reap
poet ifs
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
life-and-death grace life-is
Whatever lives is granted breath But by the grace and sufferance of Death.
rendezvous
I have a rendezvous with life.
forgive-me forgiving needs
Lord, forgive me if my need Sometimes shapes a human creed.
agonizing hide tend
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.