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.
About Claude McKay
Festus Claudius “Claude” McKay OJwas a Jamaican-American writer and poet. He was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
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If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.
Jamaican American writer, poet
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.
Jamaican American writer, poet
Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Jamaican American writer, poet
Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed.
Jamaican American writer, poet