Darryl Pinckney quote: "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."

Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing e...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property t...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

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

The nameless loser in Jay McInerney's 'Bright Lights, Big City' is going to the dogs lik...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Once upon a time, I was morbidly sensitive about the impertinence born of sociology. Taxi drivers wo...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Frederick Douglass had charged the air with rebellion and redemption, and these in turn had supporte...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and of...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Identity is made up of lots of different things now. Different colors and patterns stand out at diff...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainme...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in gr...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of ch...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Slave narratives had their greatest influence on public opinion and on literature in the U.S. betwee...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when hi...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

Race pride, socialist ideals, and a sincerity as exalted as that of Carlyle's visionaries coales...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, sh...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

If the sensitive washout has no taste for extreme gestures, total self-destruction, then his hope fo...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

When I was in high school, I looked for the black presence in a British historical tradition - befor...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

New York's various undergrounds can make for a disciplined apprenticeship, and Gaga takes pride ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make cla...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

I had a lot of notes and fragments and observations that never amounted to anything. After the Wall ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

I'd waste a holiday trying to set a story in this new place I'd visit, whereas I would never...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

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

Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature writ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

I carried props into the subway - the latest 'Semlotext(e),' a hefty volume of the Frankfurt...
DARRYL PINCKNEY

We reminisce a little bit about the run. But usually we argue over which team could go on the same t...
ED PINCKNEY

It's sometimes embarrassing when these guys come back, because he makes such a big thing about them ...
ED PINCKNEY

It was all about will and you just don't want to go home. They didn't want to go home, and we didn't...
ED PINCKNEY

Ask every coach in the NCAA. Who wouldn't want to have a dominant big man? They'd all want to start ...
ED PINCKNEY

He's a bulldog. Determined. Aggressive.
ED PINCKNEY

The first thing you need is experience. You need to have senior leadership to really go far, to get ...
ED PINCKNEY

Jay talks about guys being superstars, regardless of how they are out on the court. He always puts J...
ED PINCKNEY

We don't feel bad [for him], because we know what kind of person he's still going to be in the futur...
ED PINCKNEY

He wasn't winded at all. He looked really good. Definitely, NBA shape is different, but he had exten...
ED PINCKNEY

I'm proud of you. Very, very proud of you.
ED PINCKNEY

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is ...
CLEMENTA C. PINCKNEY

What this denomination stands for is, really, is the universal vision of all people being treated fa...
CLEMENTA C. PINCKNEY

Millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute
CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY

This is Robin Hood in reverse. These tax cap proposals favor those with the most expensive propertie...
SEN. CLEMENTA PINCKNEY

A man does not automatically become a public figure because he happens to build an empire out of chi...
JAMES PINCKNEY MILLER

It is my hope that as South Carolina senators, that we will stand up for what is best and good about...
CLEMENTA C. PINCKNEY

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.
DARRYL CHERNEY

Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and ...
DARRYL ANKA

It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
DARRYL SOMERS

Things went very well for us today. It was a great meet and we had a lot of breakthroughs. To compet...
DARRYL ANDERSON

The NCAA is an exceptional meet. We're excited to be competing in the national championships and loo...
DARRYL ANDERSON

I'm very pleased with our men's performances. It makes a big statement for the program with where we...
DARRYL ANDERSON

For our men's relay team to come home as All-Americans shows the kind of success they're going to ha...
DARRYL ANDERSON

I feel bad about it. I love animals. I have no tolerance for animals that people just discard animal...
DARRYL ADAMS

His unselfishness goes a long way on this team. For example, he'll throw the next pass and he'll kno...
DARRYL ADAMS

This is the most talented team I've had at Meade. We've had lapses in energy at times and we need to...
DARRYL ADAMS

There were times when South River had four players on Johann and Mandel, and we were able to take ad...
DARRYL ADAMS

It was a good game and we played with a sense of urgency. Chesapeake was a little bit undermanned, s...
DARRYL ADAMS

This cat has been terrorizing people with cats. If you have a cat in your house this cat is trying t...
DARRYL ADAMS

We had turnovers on five of six possessions against Old Mill. We've had trouble getting over that lo...
DARRYL ADAMS

We took the No. 1 team in the county right to the edge. I think we're playing our best ball right no...
DARRYL ADAMS

Johann is so unselfish that he sometimes hurts himself. The reality is that he shoots the ball very ...
DARRYL ADAMS

I thought Old Mill outplayed us in all faucets of the game. Quite frankly, they were the better team...
DARRYL ADAMS

It takes 50000 nuts to put a car together, but only one to scatter them all over the road.
DARRYL SOMERS

It's egregious, and we're outraged. Someone needs to pay for this.
DARRYL ROUSON

I could ask Phil to go on conditioning (assignment) and he could say yes or no. This way, I don't ha...
DARRYL SUTTER

It's the most dismal campaign that I've ever seen. It's been one set of missteps and blunders after ...
DARRYL PAULSON

That's when he was back to the old Mister. He looked so good.
DARRYL PHIPPS

We were trying not to underestimate them but we might have been looking ahead. Fort Myers can go as ...
DARRYL BURROWS

We made several runs but they had an answer for everyone. I hope that no one underestimates them the...
DARRYL BURROWS

These are not kinder, gentler times. One way or another, Northwest is going to drive its costs down,...
DARRYL JENKINS

We only have a finite amount of money, so it will be extremely important to set those priorities.
DARRYL FRANKLIN

It wasn't too many gimmicks, just hard football. They have a massive line, but we used our speed and...
DARRYL TAPP

The girls were pretty ecstatic after their performance. It's the first time I can recall in my eight...
DARRYL SOUTHARD

They have the pieces. The thing is to come together. Not one guy has to do it every night. They don'...
DARRYL STRAWBERRY

The coach can guide the young person as best he can. But the No. 1 thing is academics. The schools a...
DARRYL PAGE

Beyond matters of the soul, the inspiration for most art is in nature. For me, aesthetic meteorites ...
DARRYL PITT

If you decide to do something else instead of soil erosion, there may not be enough money left over ...
DARRYL FRANKLIN

We tried to make them an offer after the flood of 2000, but it didn't work out.
DARRYL FRANKLIN

It's great for our players. It's great for our ownership and it's great for our fans. They all deser...
DARRYL SUTTER

I think quite honestly we've signed the No. 1 free agent in the market. I don't think there's anybod...
DARRYL SUTTER

We're continuing to talk and it's been very positive and productive. I don't see it as a real issue ...
DARRYL SUTTER

Wow. That's pretty neat. That is weird. Maybe there's some fate there.
DARRYL SUTTER

A lot of it depends on guys who are banged up. We're starting on a road trip and all of those cities...
DARRYL SUTTER

Our chances are greater, but we've still got to win the rest of our games. It was a big game, but it...
DARRYL MONROE

We're playing on about half a tank and you need your goalie to play really well and our goalie didn'...
DARRYL SUTTER

It's his first National Hockey League playoff game and you're not playing him 12-15 minutes, you're ...
DARRYL SUTTER

We're pretty big Sally fans down here. It would've been easy to get dragged one way or another [in t...
DARRYL SMITH

There are many benefits; permanent drainage, protection against future flooding and property damage,...
DARRYL COLOSI

I used to pick him up at school in the Poop Moose van. He was always so proud. He's crazy about the ...
DARRYL FENTON

I met with him last week in Baton Rouge to clarify the rules of appointment of a civil servant. I as...
DARRYL WAGLEY

This will further strengthen the Ford brand by providing us with a greater opportunity to drive show...
DARRYL HAZEL

Beating Navy, which was always considered one of the best teams in the country, was huge for Marylan...
DARRYL HILL

My knee has been good. I'm doing well and I feel like I can be effective on the court. I think I'll ...
DARRYL HILL

That may raise the obvious question of whether there's an insatiable appetite on the part of the cou...
DARRYL PAULSON

There was some positive and some curious questions about it. Of course, our players are young and th...
DARRYL SMITHEY

And God so loved the world that he gave it fresh air and clean water.
DARRYL PRICE

And if the audience is moving in that direction, you have to move with them. I'm perfectly capable o...
DARRYL WORLEY

Charlie is an asset to Adams County and I truly understand his position on retiring. I was a little ...
DARRYL GRENNELL

Down the road we may call Charlie for budget consultation. He is so familiar with the budget we may ...
DARRYL GRENNELL

We want to make this as painless as possible; we don't want to scare people off.
DARRYL REED

Nothing was broken (in my face). And the scar, hopefully, won't be too bad.
DARRYL SYDOR

It was great back then because hockey in L.A. was the big thing. We would have Ronald Reagan and Ger...
DARRYL SYDOR

The last few games, we had been getting a lot of shots and chances, tonight that didn't happen, but ...
DARRYL SYDOR

It gets you hyper, more than anything. And how good is that on the ice, especially when you need to ...
DARRYL SYDOR

They seem to be getting too many odd-man rushes lately, and good defense is going to lead to good of...
DARRYL SYDOR

I'm six foot eleven. My birthday covers three days.
DARRYL DAWKINS

What's happening in skeleton that has generated a great deal of attention is the result of very seri...
DARRYL SEIBEL

It created an opportunity for alternative candidates to emerge to exploit this dissatisfaction. None...
DARRYL PAULSON

He (Bradley) needs to work on everything. He's still young. He's still raw. With everyone, we're try...
DARRYL DRAKE

I attribute that to a lack of playoff experience. Playoff basketball is a little bit different. We h...
DARRYL ADAMS

We're not playing well by a long shot. Tonight was very sloppy. I attribute that to only playing nin...
DARRYL BURROWS

For much of the '70s, '80s and '90s, it was like the neglected stepchild told it was going to have t...
DARRYL PAULSON

I've got my ring on, I'm going to relish it and take advantage of it. I'm not going nowhere. We're l...
DARRYL MCDONALD

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is unnecessary. If they disagree all the tim...
DARRYL ZANUCK

There is a lot of psychological pressure that goes into having your medical care filmed and televise...
DARRYL FRANK

This is a huge undertaking. This is a really important corridor.
DARRYL VANMETER

June's our big travel season, so we may be postponing this to a worse conclusion and it might have b...
DARRYL JENKINS

He's got dynamite in his hip pocket. He's one who makes it count on every hit he gets. He's the most...
DARRYL PHIPPS

It's a fine line. If you look at the series, the first game was an overtime game, the second game is...
DARRYL SUTTER

The area has flooded a number of times in the past 35 years. Flooding provides a hazard to homeowner...
DARRYL COLOSI

It has done some damage. She can't escape the bad news syndrome: She's always responding to bad news...
DARRYL PAULSON

They have that reputation for (playing well) in big games. I fully expect them to be ready on Saturd...
DARRYL TAPP

It does matter. Not just to the U.S. Olympic Committee. It matters to the American public. It matter...
DARRYL SEIBEL

As perfect and as great as our system is, there are still flaws. And this is why it's important that...
DARRYL ROUSON

No one is being singled out. But the accumulated effect of letting that go unchecked would hinder th...
DARRYL SEIBEL

The business of government ought to be government, not business. I do think there's been too much of...
DARRYL PAULSON

This system is not a good one. It's like a Swiss cheese -- we all know this. I don't think any of us...
DARRYL JENKINS

If you watched Justin Gage and watched how he blocked (last Sunday), several of those big runs Thoma...
DARRYL DRAKE

He has a chance to do some big things in this game. He's a great player. He just needs to work hard ...
DARRYL FEEMSTER

Kipper is always one of the main reasons why we win hockey games.
DARRYL SUTTER

Doc was better than Roger Clemens, ... Doc was more dominating. He was going to have a better career...
DARRYL STRAWBERRY

If we had our preferences, of course we'd like all the stories to be good, strong positive stories. ...
DARRYL SEIBEL

I was astonished. It was like I wasn't even on the field at all. It hurt my pride.
DARRYL TAPP

The stakes are always higher because it always decides who wins an ACC title or a Big East title or ...
DARRYL TAPP

This has created a vehicle for seniors to augment their retirement, get equity out of the home and u...
DARRYL HICKS

It is not only a beautiful object but it transcends that which we know and are familiar. It is other...
DARRYL PITT

It will be the responsibility of the property owner to move or demolish the clubhouse and otherwise ...
DARRYL FRANKLIN

We think it's going to revitalize the whole area.
DARRYL LEECH

This is the first time we've beaten Reno twice in one year since I've been here. I always wanted to ...
DARRYL FEEMSTER

It is in process and we are awaiting final approval from the organizing committee and the internatio...
DARRYL SEIBEL

No one has to have a great percentage. We need to keep focused on defense. We're not going to win wi...
DARRYL HILL

I don't think this is a show about the priesthood. This is a show about guys who are discerning thei...
DARRYL SILVER

If I wanted to sell my house, would I be able to get the full bang for my dollar, knowing that the f...
DARRYL REED

They made a calculated risk and they lost. That happens in a very difficult business like this.
DARRYL JENKINS

I think we ran out of gas. It was like a road game for us.
DARRYL SUTTER

Traffic volumes on I-75 are approaching values very seldom seen throughout the country.
DARRYL VANMETER

Nobody deserves it more than Hines because nobody has worked as hard as him. I saw it [in high schoo...
DARRYL DRAKE

Our concerns would lie in two areas. One, the lack of communication with an athlete who ultimately w...
DARRYL SEIBEL

We haven't made a decision about whether we would pursue a 2016 bid for the United States at this po...
DARRYL SEIBEL

He started the season off a little slow. But he's getting in better position as of late.
DARRYL BURROWS

I felt a little hurt that we weren't ranked. But I hope they don't forget Dillard.
DARRYL BURROWS

He has always been Coach Ingram to me. He was my high school coach. I've known him 30-plus years. He...
DARRYL BURROWS

If we want to make a run in the playoffs, we have to be under control and willing to share the baske...
DARRYL ADAMS

He came in at a good time because we were struggling and then he just shows up. He was a bigger kid ...
DARRYL ADAMS

We were suffering much the same at this point last season and I'm sure some of these guys remember t...
DARRYL ADAMS

It's an unwritten law that it's my lunch pail. I've issued the challenge. If someone outworks me, th...
DARRYL TAPP

The only people we're going to accept are people who have played or are playing hockey. We won't tak...
DARRYL WOLSKI

The national anthem is kind of a hard song to sing sometimes, and God gave me the strength to put it...
DARRYL REED

This is a significant step. Our interest in the short term is in preserving opportunities for athlet...
DARRYL SEIBEL

We just have to verbally keep talking about it. You can't have negative thoughts, they take up too m...
DARRYL SYDOR

When they (police) first approached me at The Falls, I provided them with my real name, my real addr...
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

There's no question we had circled Navy on the schedule. That was the biggest game of the season for...
DARRYL HILL

It is a lost opportunity for us to make our [playoff] position better. We can't come up with a slopp...
DARRYL SYDOR

Tim has been a beast in there for us. He has elevated his game and there has been no stopping the gu...
DARRYL TAPP

Within you is everything you need; hold on to that and let go of everything else.
DARRYL DIPTEE

That will allow him to return to his job as assistant chief.
DARRYL WAGLEY

That makes it even better. Now when we upset them, it'll be a shock to everybody.
DARRYL RUSHTON

This is an execution. This is a bloody, cold, calculated murder.
DARRYL STALLWORTH

He (Anstey) pulled up all right. He's been carrying it the last couple of games, so I think he's loo...
DARRYL MCDONALD

We had a lot of chances and a couple empty nets. Luongo made a few big saves on shots that are norma...
DARRYL SYDOR

It's a tough question. You want to go in being hot, but you also want to have that comfort of being ...
DARRYL SYDOR

It's equally as hard to get back. I think the one thing that you have is the knowledge of the ups an...
DARRYL SYDOR

He knows that signing day isn't the end of the world. If those are the only visits he makes before t...
DARRYL PHIPPS

He's got that big frame that colleges like. I see him as one of those great hybrid players. One who ...
DARRYL PHIPPS

It does raise some questions as to who benefits from these projects. Is it the taxpayers of St. Pete...
DARRYL PAULSON

This has generated tremendous amounts of additional funds to local governments.
DARRYL PAULSON

To back away from appearing just sends the wrong message to constituents, ... It says you're just go...
DARRYL PAULSON

You have this uncertainty. People will not contribute money in times of uncertainty.
DARRYL PAULSON

Clearly she was talked out of the race the last time around (in 2004) and clearly she had conversati...
DARRYL PAULSON

In prior years you couldn't drive more than a couple blocks without seeing scores of these signs for...
DARRYL PAULSON

That's perhaps the most important thing. A good man can go have a good camp. Then he goes from a loc...
DARRYL PAGE

It's just us getting stops, playing defense. We're going to score regardless.
DARRYL MONROE

It was something that we knew we could do. We just had to put forth the effort and do it.
DARRYL MONROE

We get a lot of information about New Orleans, but I don't even know how bad Alabama and Mississippi...
DARRYL MOCH

That's what makes this so special. Our main goal was to stick together as a team and to end up winni...
DARRYL MCDONALD

I don't know what to say, man. I've been waiting for this for a long time. It's 13 years I've been t...
DARRYL MCDONALD

Everyone has stepped up and played well, but it's been a tough run. We've had five games in two week...
DARRYL MCDONALD

I'm not looking down that road just yet.
DARRYL MCDONALD

It comes probably at the right time, even though you're rolling and you want to keep playing. Some o...
DARRYL MCDONALD

We've got to get those games on the road if we're talking about finishing first or second. We've got...
DARRYL MCDONALD

The city must determine whether they wish FEMA to complete the site and house these 34 displaced fam...
DARRYL MADDEN

They have the wrong person.
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

I'm a likely suspect because I have a criminal background and I wasn't supposed to be there working.
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

I can't really say I had anything to do with it at all. I was in the apartment. The only thing I ple...
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

I'm not taking away what happened to this lady and not to play the race card, but you are singling o...
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

I'm outside looking at them right now.
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

Anyone who's seen two TV shows could figure it out -- they were cops. A child could figure it out.
DARRYL LITTLEJOHN

We're very excited to be part of the Marriott family of hotels, and we look forward to welcoming our...
DARRYL LEECH

We felt this hotel had terrific potential.
DARRYL LEECH

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

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