African-American History

Countee Cullen Quotes

Portrait of Countee Cullen, in Central Park.

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Carl Van Vechten collection.

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be poet and not negro poet.
My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.
So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

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