Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Claude McKay

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay OJ was a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.

Jamaican - Writer | September 15, 1889 - May 22, 1948

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

Claude McKay

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

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.

Claude McKay

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

Claude McKay

It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.

Claude McKay

We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.

Claude McKay

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

I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

Claude McKay

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

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

Claude McKay

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

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.

Claude McKay

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

Claude McKay

The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.

Claude McKay

Top 15 Quotes & Sayings by Claude McKay

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