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Claude McKay Quotes

«If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.»
Author: Claude McKay
«Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/ And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/ Stealing my breath of life, I will confess/ I love this cultured hell that tests my youth!»
Author: Claude McKay
«I know the dark delight of being strange,/ The penalty of difference in the crowd,/ The loneliness of wisdom among fools . . .»
Author: Claude McKay
«Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.»
Author: Claude McKay
«Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines»
«Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.»