When you're writing fiction it's a heightened voice. You're trying to cast a spell, which isn't the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it's a different sort of performance. — 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… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
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… — Darryl Pinckney Copy Share Image
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
