• Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.

    Countee Cullen: Not for myself I make this prayer, But for this race of mine That stretches forth from shadowed places Dark hands for bread and wine.
    Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.52, Library of America