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

Claude McKay

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Claude McKay
Age: 41 †
Born: 1989
Born: September 15
Died: 1948
Died: May 22
Novelist
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Clarendon Parish
Jamaica
Hugh Hope
Festus Claudius McKay
C. E. Edwards
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People
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