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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

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In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: After Began Black Blacks Came Freedoms Great Had Imagined Mean North Numbers Rushed Russian South War Who World World War World War I Years

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'High Cotton' is more conscious of class than 'Black Deutschland.'

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Black Class Conscious Cotton High More Than

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I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Around Because Black False Fragments Had Lot Notes Over Pieces Quickly Sitting Starts Summer Very Wrote Years

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I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's enough. You wouldn't look at these kids and say that they are Uncle Toms or self-hating or fleeing or trying to be white, given the culture in which they live, which is very natural to them as kids.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Any Black Cousins Culture Enough Even Except Fleeing Given Kids Know Live Look Natural Other Say Them Toms Trying Uncle Very Which White Who You

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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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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 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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