Claude McKay Quotes

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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.
• Human dignity is more precious than prestige....
• I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...
• We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.
• It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.
• Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
• If we must die, O let us nobly die.
• 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…
• 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…
• If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

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