Author: Darryl Pinckney

Quotes

Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

- Darryl Pinckney

Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.

Unfortunately for me, I was one of these people who took a long time to learn that the material at his feet was fine.

- Darryl Pinckney

When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.

When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.

- Darryl Pinckney

Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'

- Darryl Pinckney

Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.

Eventually, I gave up my sublet in Berlin and stayed in England for a long time - for about 20 years.

- Darryl Pinckney

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.

- Darryl Pinckney

In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.

In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.

- Darryl Pinckney

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

- Darryl Pinckney

If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.

If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope for singularity rests in his voice. Tone is everything.

- Darryl Pinckney

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