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Your love to me was like an unread book.
Countee Cullen -
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
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So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.
Countee Cullen -
I have a rendezvous with life.
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.
Countee Cullen -
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
Countee Cullen