Famous quote by Claude McKay

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"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"

- Claude McKay

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This quote is written / told by Claude McKay between September 15, 1889 and May 22, 1948. He/she was a famous Writer from Jamaica. The author also have 3 other quotes.

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