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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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Name:   Claude McKay
 
Nationality:   Jamaican
 
Date of Birth:   Sep 15, 1889
 
Date of Death:   May 22,  1948
 
Profession:   Writer
 
 
 
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If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
 
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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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Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
 
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