Claude McKay quotes
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“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.82, Rutgers University Press
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“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.”
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“Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.”
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“Human dignity is more precious than prestige....”
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“I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.”
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“Deep in the secret chambers of my heart I muse my life-long hate, and without flinch I bear it nobly as I live my part.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay, William Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.162, University of Illinois Press
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“The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Courier Corporation
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“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.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay (1953). “Selected poems”
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“If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, If we must die, O let us nobly die.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.60, Courier Corporation
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“If we must die, O let us nobly die.”
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“Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay, William Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.191, University of Illinois Press
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“It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay (1973). “The passion of Claude McKay: selected poetry and prose, 1912-1948”, Schocken
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“We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.”
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“I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay, William J. Maxwell (2004). “Complete Poems”, p.348, University of Illinois Press
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“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”
-- Claude McKaySource : Claude McKay, Gene Andrew Jarrett (1937). “A Long Way from Home”, p.94, Rutgers University Press
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