Active Quote by Darryl Pinckney

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

— Darryl Pinckney

As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine…

— Darryl Pinckney

It's not nothing when you're abroad and you don't have a washing machine.

— Darryl Pinckney

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

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

“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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

— Darryl Pinckney