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Claude McKay Quotes

Claude McKay quotes

Jamaican Writer September 15, 1889 – May 22, 1948

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Claude McKay quote: "Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of..."
Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws. Claude McKay
If We Must Die If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed In vain; then even the monsters we defy Shall be constrained to honor us though dead! O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe! Though far outnumbered let us show us brave, And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow! What though... Claude McKay
Claude McKay quote: "If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot..."
If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything. Claude McKay
Claude McKay quote: "Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the..."
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed. Claude McKay
Claude McKay quote: "Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a..."
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

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