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

- Claude Mckay

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

- Claude Mckay

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

- Claude Mckay

If we must die, O let us nobly die.

- Claude Mckay

Human dignity is more precious than prestige.

- 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

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

- Claude Mckay

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.

- Claude Mckay

I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsiana's red, blood-red in warm December.

- Claude Mckay