Countee Cullen Quotes

“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.”

“I'm sorry, Cullen. I really am. I know this sucks. But you're better off anyway. And you'll be fine. You needed me. Now someone else needs me.”

“I've always liked telling stories. That probably came from my dad, who definitely had the gift of gab and who wove a kind of personal folklore about his youth - stories full of adventure and ghosts and wild antics.”

“The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.”

“Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.”

“When I first started submitting my work professionally - and we're talking years and years ago - I had no patience for editorial response times. I hated waiting to hear back from people, hated waiting to see my work in print.”

“Reilly Brown is a master of balancing action, humor, and extreme violence, and his character designs for some of the alien races and technology that we encounter is just amazing.”

“Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.”

“Not for myself I make this prayer But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.”

“Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there.”