Idealism is like a castle in the air if it is not based on a solid foundation of social and political realism.
Claude McKayI know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools.
Claude McKayUpon 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.
Claude McKay