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Baldwin gave expression to the longings of blacks in exalted prose. He was embraced, in the tradition of Negro Firsterism, even by those who never sat down with a book, as our preeminent literary spokesman, whether he liked it or not. Neither athlete nor entertainer, but nevertheless a star.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Athlete Blacks Book Down Embraced Entertainer Even Exalted Expression Gave He Liked Literary Neither Never Nevertheless Nor Our Prose Sat Spokesman Star Those Tradition Whether Who

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New York's various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride in her earliest fan base of art, fashion and music students.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Apprenticeship Art Base Disciplined Earliest Fan Fan Base Fashion Gaga Her Make Music New Pride Students Takes Various York

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The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Black Farther Getting History Increases Land Manhattan New People Pushed Story The History Of Uses Value

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Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Artists Black Capital Century Counterparts Intellectuals Manhattan Much Twentieth Twentieth Century White Writers

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'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Architecture Black Connecting District Fresh Ghetto Harlem Historical Looking Past Surprise Way

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I never read lying down.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Down Lying Never Read

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I grew up in Indianapolis, Ind., then a conservative, provincial city. Anglophilia was the first foreign language I was exposed to. Or maybe it was a way of one-upping the local white people. Or maybe it was an early manifestation of homohood.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: City Conservative Early Exposed First Foreign Foreign Language Grew Language Local Manifestation Maybe People Provincial Then Up Way White

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When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - before too much slavery and empire - that would not cost me my self-respect.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Before Black British Cost Empire High High School Historical Looked Me Much Presence School Self-Respect Slavery Too Too Much Tradition Would

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I was a slow and lazy reader as a kid. 'The Prince and the Pauper' was the only non-school book I would read, over and over, between television, records and radio, until I picked up my aunt's copy of 'In Cold Blood' and she didn't ask for it back.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Ask Aunt Back Between Blood Book Cold Copy Kid Lazy Only Over Picked Prince Radio Read Reader Records She Slow Television Until Up Would

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Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coalesced in Asa Philip Randolph.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Exalted Ideals Philip Pride Race Sincerity Socialist Visionaries

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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