Like men we’ll face the murderous cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Claude McKay Quotes
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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| Birth: | 15th September, 1889 |
| Death: | 22nd May, 1948 |
| Nationality: | American, Jamaican |
| Profession: | Poet, Writer |
About
Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was born in Clarendon, Jamaica. He was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He wrote four novels: Home to Harlem, a best-seller that won the Harmon Gold Award for Literature, Banjo, Banana Bottom, and in 1941 a manuscript called Amiable With Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair Between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem that has not yet been published. He also authored collections of poetry, a collection of short stories. His 1922 poetry collection, Harlem Shadows, was among the first books published during the Harlem Renaissance.
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