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“If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.”
-- Claude McKay

#Men #Accountability #Faithful
“Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.”
-- Claude McKay

#Reality #Air #Political
“Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.”
-- Claude McKay

#Development #Plant #Grows
“Human dignity is more precious than prestige....”
-- Claude McKay

#Dignity #Prestige #Human Dignity
“I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.”
-- Claude McKay

#Blood #Red #December
“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 McKay

#Hate #Heart #Long
“The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.”
-- Claude McKay

#Night #Bird
“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 McKay

#Clothes #Shining #Lines
“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 McKay

#Dignity #Spots #Hog
“If we must die, O let us nobly die.”
-- Claude McKay
“Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.”
-- Claude McKay

#Adventure #Zest #Law
“It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.”
-- Claude McKay

#Faults
“We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.”
-- Claude McKay

#Color #Tree
“I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...”
-- Claude McKay

#Loneliness #Dark #Differences
“And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.”
-- Claude McKay

#Way #Hungry #Familiar

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