Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
More Quotes from Claude McKay:
Love words, mad words, dream words, sweet senseless words,Melodious like notes of mating birds;
Claude Mckay
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKay
Oh I love you so much, not recking of passion, that I feel it is wrong!
Claude Mckay
For life is greater than the thousand wars
Men wage for it in their insatiate lust,
And will remain like the eternal stars,
When all that shines to-day is drift and dust
But I am bound with you in your mean graves,
O black men, simple slaves of ruthless slaves.
Claude Mckay
And where life lay asleep broods darkly death.
Claude Mckay
Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess; I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
Claude McKay
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