Countee Cullen Quotes

"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
(Related: Success, Work, Hard work, Order, Succeed, Writer)

"I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage."
- Countee Cullen
(Related: Conservative)

"I have a rendezvous with life."
- Countee Cullen
(Related: Life)

"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
(Related: Earth, Help)

"Your love to me was like an unread book."
- Countee Cullen
(Related: Love)