KeenBrain
KeenBrain
KeenBrain

Darryl Pinckney Quotes


Share this page on

Quotes by Darryl Pinckney

Showing 1-10 of 51 Quotes by Darryl Pinckney

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - streets, people, rock lyrics, headlines - to landscape. Every night holds magical promises of renewal. But burnout is inevitable, like some law of physics.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Abstraction Been Burnout City Every Every Night Everything Experience Fast Fast Lane Headlines Hiding Holds Inevitable Landscape Lane Law Like Lyrics Magical Night Observer Passive People Physics Place Promises Refuge Renewal Replaced Rock Some Streets Theater Turn

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supported him in the heat of abolitionism. But the atmosphere changed to one of repression after the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Act After Air Atmosphere Changed Charged Civil Civil Rights Civil Rights Act Had Heat Him Rebellion Redemption Repression Rights Supported Turn

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at different times. Different instruments in the symphony of being are more distinct than others at different times.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Being Colors Different Different Colors Different Things Different Times Distinct Identity Instruments Lots Made More Now Others Out Patterns Stand Symphony Than Things Times Up

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depicted in John David Morley's recent 'Pictures from the Water Trade.'

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Blurred David Depicted Distant Distinctions Expectations Give John Life Low Novels Often Pictures Places Recent Say Set Those Tokyo Trade Travel Unlike Us Ward Water Way Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Backward Harlem History Lead Straight Streets Work

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Black Cousins Elderly Ever Every Exists Grandparents Harlem Kind Legends Mecca Memory Musicals Preserved Ready Remembered Retrospect Scenes Square Texts Those Times Times Square Virtually

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of Jim Crow, and for whites who cannot understand the hard deal that faces working-class blacks, it is difficult to reconcile Hughes's reputation as a poet-hero with his topical verse and uncomplicated prose.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Blacks Boots Cannot Crow Deal Difficult Faces Frustrations Generation Hard His History Hughes Identify Jim Jim Crow Prose Reconcile Reputation Sly Understand Verse Whites Who Working-Class

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: After Arm Because Being Black Even Evolved Fears Former Friends Had Kind Newspapers Opposition Press Propaganda Reconstruction Slaves

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

Topics: Blacks Blocking Challenges Complicated Contemplate Disturbing Fragmented History Met Mountain Neat Path The History Of Top Trail Trees

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


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

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Accused Been Black Give Life Often Unwelcome Whites Witness Writing

Keywords: None


Suggest an Edit


Cite the source


Save to Favorites


Collect


Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

Links

Find Darryl Pinckney on Amazon

Related Authors

Richard Bach
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ernest Hemingway
Jack Kerouac
H. P. Lovecraft
Chuck Palahniuk
Gore Vidal
Elie Wiesel

Popular Authors

Kofi Annan Marcus Tullius Cicero Thomas Jefferson Jack Ma Jean Piaget Sylvia Plath Desmond Tutu Jim Valvano

Change your beliefs...change your life.

Get a related quote or insight every day.

(it's 100% free)

Follow Us On

Today's Birthdays

1588 - Thomas Hobbes

1856 - Booker T. Washington

1937 - Colin Powell

1816 - Samuel Freeman Miller

1827 - Joseph Lister

1834 - Frank Richard Stockton

1837 - Algernon Charles Swinburne

1883 - Walter Huston

1900 - Spencer Tracy

1901 - Melvyn Douglas

Birthdays on April 5th
All Birthdays

Popular Topics

Art God Happiness Leadership Mom Positive Veterans Day Work