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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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None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: After Appeared Black Civil Civil War Existence First Newspapers None War Which

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As long as white newspapers were unwilling or unable to attack 'anti-Negro' forces or to air the views of black reformers, there was a service black newspapers could provide.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Air Attack Black Could Forces Long Newspapers Provide Service Unable Unwilling Views Were White

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Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Always America Black Classes Divided Felt Folk Itself Two

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The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Acquire Black Black Community Blacks Business Capital Children Community Demise Driven Had Hard Life Limited Made Most Pass Political Political Life Prestige Professional Property Reconstruction Rose Spheres Were

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Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.

~Darryl Pinckney

Topics: Act Aesthetic Black Circuit Days Even His Hostility Intellectual Lecture Met Prominent Sixties Some

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I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.

~Daryl Hall

Topics: Agricultural Basically Become Black Grew Industrial Integrated Neighborhood Philadelphia Place Since Suburb Town Up Very Which

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I'd like to see more crossover between white and black music. That's something I've been advocating for years.

~Daryl Hall

Topics: Advocating Been Between Black Black Music Crossover Like More Music See Something White Years

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In my Philly neighborhood, black and white kids hung together without even thinking about it. The spirit of Martin Luther King was alive and well.

~Daryl Hall

Topics: About Alive Black Black And White Even Hung Kids King Luther Martin Martin Luther Martin Luther King Neighborhood Spirit Thinking Together Well White Without

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What I do isn't black music; it's just my music.

~Daryl Hall

Topics: Black Black Music Just Music

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