Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Claude McKay
Born: September 15, 1889
Died: May 22, 1948 (aged 58)
Bio: Festus Claudius "Claude" McKay was a Jamaican-American writer and poet, who was a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance.
Known for:
- Home to Harlem (1928)
- Banana Bottom (1933)
- Harlem shadows (1922)
- Constab ballads (1912)