Author: Countee Cullen
Cited by
- Carl Van Vechten (1)
- IN: Nigger Heaven (1926) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: "All day long and all night through One thing only must I do: Quench my pride and cool my blood, Lest I perish in the flood."
FROM: Heritage, (1925), Poem, US
- Sharon Draper (1)
- IN: Copper Sun (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: What is Africa to me:
Copper sun or scarlet sea,
Jungle star or jungle track,
Strong bronzed men, or regal black
Women from whose loins I sprang
When the birds of Eden sang?
One three centuries removed
From the scenes his fathers loved,
Spicy grove, cinnamon tree,
What is Africa to me?
FROM: "Heritage", (1925), Poem, US
- Wallace Thurman (1)
- IN: The Blacker the Berry... (1929) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: My colour shrouds me in...
FROM: The Shroud of Color, (1925), Poem, US