“If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.”
Source: Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)
“If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.”
“Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:/ To make a poet black, and bid him sing!”