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“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.”
 
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Name:   Countee Cullen
 
Nationality:   American
 
Date of Birth:   Mar 30, 1903
 
Date of Death:   Jan 9,  1946
 
Profession:   Poet
 
 
 
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