Countee Cullen Quote

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

My soul's high song: the collected writings of Countee Cullen, voice of the Harlem Renaissance (ed. Doubleday Books, 1991)

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

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

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

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