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May 30, 1903
American
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Poet
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May 30, 1903
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.
Countee Cullen
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.
Countee Cullen
And if I please you so, my lover,Remember praise is comely.
Countee Cullen
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing.
Countee Cullen
