Claude McKay Quotes
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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
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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.
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Human dignity is more precious than prestige.
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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.
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Adventure-seasoned and storm-buffeted, I shun all signs of anchorage, because The zest of life exceeds the bound of laws.
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And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.
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If we must die, O let us nobly die.
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I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.
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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.
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I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.
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We are like trees. We wear all colors naturally.
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The shivering birds beneath the eaves Have sheltered for the night.
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If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
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It's when you are down that you learn about your faults.
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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.
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