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

 

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.


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This quote is just one of 9 total Countee Cullen quotes in our collection. Countee Cullen is known for saying '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.' as well as some of the following quotes.

My poetry, I think, has become the way of my giving out what music is within me.

Countee Cullen

Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

Countee Cullen

So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds.

Countee Cullen

If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.

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The play is done, the crowds depart; and see / That twisted tortured thing hung from a tree, / Swart victim of a newer Calvary.

Countee Cullen