Darryl Pinckney Quotes
I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting - anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.
The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's purges of the late 1930s.
Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded.
If your family or your people are looking over your shoulder, change your seat or push them away.
Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There's nothing that can be done about that; it's just where we are in the history of our perceptions.
In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.
Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it's not such a big deal.
I can see Obama trying to be the president who suggests solutions for everyone who has experienced economic hardship.
If you're bored, your readers will be bored. If you're faking it, you won't get the kind of readers you want.
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."
I think at the beginning of one's writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It's also often a mistake.
IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.
The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.
'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.