Countee Cullen, an American poet and a leading figure in the Harlem Renaissance was born Countee LeRoy Porter. This 1920s artistic movement produced the first large body of work in the United States written by African American. Cullen considered, however, that poetry race-less, although some of his poems were tools he used to express his feelings about the effect of the others with quite different opinions. Still, those poems speak blindly to the masses

Cullen kept his life extremely secretive, intentionally or not is unknown. According to different sources, Countee Cullen was born in Louisville, Kentucky, New York, NewYork, or Baltimore, Maryland in 1903. His mother possibly abandoned Cullen and left him to be reared by a woman named Mrs. Poter, who was probably a paternal grandmother Cullen once said that he was born in New York City. How literally he meant that is unknown. Porter brought Countee to...