• 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.

    Countee Cullen: 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.
    Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.66, Library of America