Claude McKay Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.