In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with once-guarded letters, aging witnesses, previously unidentified girlfriends. . . . Mostly, Rowley concentrates on telling Wright's very powerful story. — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better off, no problem. But they still can't imagine black people who are just like them. That's the real problem. That's racism. Not being able to believe that those others are actually just like you. — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share
It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine. — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
What happened after World War I was disgraceful. Most veterans, like my great-uncle, were squashed back into place. Congress couldn't pass an anti-lynching bill.… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share
“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn’t see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share
It's not true that voting doesn't make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists.… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
Obama can't be everything to everyone. He changed. He did. I never thought I'd hear Obama say, "Let's go back to nuclear arms," but he did. In the meantime, the clear and present danger is the Republicans in the Senate. A lot of politics isn't heroic, it's as day-to-day as our lives themselves. We always want to make the Byronic… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share
Hillary certainly needs the black vote, and Democrats need it. She's not doing anything too soon; she's raising her money and not wanting any… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
It's important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
People from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people." — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
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;… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
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