Claude McKay Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Claude McKay:

Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
~Claude McKay


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-mckay-quotes/#c279598e

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-mckay-quotes/#6dd00f55

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-mckay-quotes/#a76b7e52

Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
~Claude McKay


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/claude-mckay-quotes/#090e82f7

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