"We shall not always plant while others reap"

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Source : Countee Cullen (2013). “Countee Cullen: Collected Poems: (American Poets Project #32)”, p.93, Library of America

Countee Cullen

#Plant Quotes #Reap Quotes

“I started out modeling at a young age and surrounded myself with different brilliant minds. I have so many people to get educated from, and I've been a sponge.”
“The easiest way of making money is to stop losing it.”
“I am here because libraries and museums are singular and important institutions with unique contributions to make to our nation. But more importantly, I am here as an advocate for children and families, for healthy communities, for economic development, for scholars and researchers, for individuals who seek educational and informational resources throughout their lives.”
“Holidays have been commercialized. It has become about material things. But the holidays are about sharing stories and being in each others presence.”
“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”
“Perception is a tool that's pointed on both ends.”
“I've been DJing a little bit, so you get used to the fact that music sounds brilliant when it's loud.”
“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”

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