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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

Topics: Everything Extreme Gestures His Hope Rests Self-Destruction Sensitive Singularity Taste Then Tone Total Voice

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Tone is everything.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Everything Tone

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The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs like a gentleman. He is too smart to blame anyone for the impasse he has come to, hip enough to know he does not know enough, too sophisticated to masquerade as an anti-hero.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Anyone Big Big City Blame Bright City Come Does Dogs Enough Gentleman Going He Hip Jay Know Lights Like Loser Masquerade Smart Sophisticated Too

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Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Always Black Does Fiction Find Friends Her Homes Husbands Jobs Lose Lovers Marshall Themselves While Women

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Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers would not stop for me after dark; white girls jogged to keep ahead of my shadow thrown at their heels by the amber street lamps. Part of me didn't blame them, but most of me was hurt.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: About After Amber Blame Born Dark Drivers Girl Heels Hurt Keep Lamps Me Most Once Part Sensitive Shadow Sociology Stop Street Taxi Them Thrown Time White Would Ahead

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I carried props into the subway - the latest 'Semlotext(e),' a hefty volume of the Frankfurt School - so that the employed would not get the wrong idea or, more to the point, the usual idea about me.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: About Carried Employed Get Idea Latest Me More Point Props School Subway Usual Volume Would Wrong

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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

Topics: About Been Black Black History Bunch Color Dancing History Might Purple Say Spielberg Steven Well

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

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Both Claim Color Film Historical Imagination Make Novel Purple Truth Works

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'Go Tell It on the Mountain,' its pages heavy with sinners brought low and prayers groaning on the wind, scared me when I read it as a teenager.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Brought Go Heavy Low Me Mountain Pages Prayers Read Scared Sinners Teenager Tell Wind

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The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Almost Around Been Could Had House James King Long Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Meant Much Name Remember

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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