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Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.

Claude McKay

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