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 We reminisce a little bit about the run. But usually we argue over which team could go on the same t...
ED 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 I know black kids who don't even know any other black kids except their cousins. And that's ...
DARRYL 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 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 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 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 Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
CHARLES SIMIC Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that&...
CHARLES MINGUS The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
CHARLES BABBAGE The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
CHARLES BABBAGE Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
CHARLES BABBAGE In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
CHARLES BABBAGE Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGE That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
CHARLES BABBAGE The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
CHARLES BABBAGE The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
CHARLES BABBAGE There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY I could never hate anyone I knew.
CHARLES LAMB Audiences seem to have a limitless appetite for vampires and for fantasy in general. Unlike many oth...
CHARLES DANCE By and large, talent is in such short supply that mediocrity can be taken for brilliance rather more...
CHARLES SAATCHI Go, forget me - why should sorrow, O'er that brow a shadow fling? Go, forget me - and tomorrow, ...
CHARLES WOLFE I've always been slightly self-conscious as an actor, and I guess that sometimes reads as pompos...
CHARLES KIMBROUGH A privilege may not be a right, but, under the constitution of the country, I do not gather that any...
CHARLES TUPPER My wife and I met right down the street. Our single, 'Just a Kiss' is kind of about that mom...
CHARLES KELLEY I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see w...
CHARLES DICKENS We said that a single injustice, a single crime, a single illegality, particularly if it is official...
CHARLES PEGUY We should weep for men at their birth, not at their death.
CHARLES MONTESQUIEU There is no such thing as death. In nature nothing dies. From each sad remnant of decay, some forms ...
CHARLES MACKAY Those who think in Britain they can push the Brexit button and not have a bill to pay are seriously ...
CHARLES MICHEL In Britain ever more, they will realize that Brexit, well, has consequences - economic, commercial, ...
CHARLES MICHEL God buries His workmen but carries on His work.
CHARLES WESLEY Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
CHARLES READE The power of administrative bodies to make finding of fact which may be treated as conclusive, if th...
CHARLES HUGHES We are under a Constitution, but the Constitution is what the judges say it is, and the judiciary is...
CHARLES HUGHES Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of w...
CHARLES DICKENS There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
CHARLES DICKENS At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will al...
CHARLES DARWIN To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing of a new ...
CHARLES DARWIN False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false v...
CHARLES DARWIN I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
CHARLES DARWIN On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explan...
CHARLES DARWIN Man tends to increase at a greater rate than his means of subsistence.
CHARLES DARWIN How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
CHARLES DARWIN Economists at the National Bureau of Economic Research and University of Chicago persuasively argue ...
CHARLES DUHIGG Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of.
CHARLES RICHARDS There is a calculus, it turns out, for mastering our subconscious urges. For companies like Target, ...
CHARLES DUHIGG You've got to take the road you need to take, and only you can make that calculation. Not your d...
CHARLES SCHWAB All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Unsurprisingly, an uninterruptible power supply (UPS) - once a luxury for room-sized computer instal...
CHARLES PLATT I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun...
CHARLES SOULE These matters having been arranged, I had a temporary awning erected near the river, and was for thr...
CHARLES STURT Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tear...
CHARLES DICKENS You have been the last dream of my soul.
CHARLES DICKENS I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
CHARLES DICKENS As a young analyst just out of Stanford business school in the 1960s, I got to really understand wha...
CHARLES SCHWAB My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on...
CHARLES KURALT I'd rather go by bus.
PRINCE CHARLES A leader may symbolize and express what is best in people, like Pericles, or what is worst, like Hit...
CHARLES YOST Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happ...
CHARLES DICKENS I have made so many mistakes, and such really stupid ones, I would start blubbing away if I could re...
CHARLES SAATCHI This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
CHARLES II Questions focus our thinking. Ask empowering questions like: What's good about this? What's not perf...
CHARLES CONNOLLY No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
CHARLES STEINMETZ Success is that old ABC - ability, breaks, and courage.
CHARLES LUCKMAN Watching cold fusion is like watching water boil in slow motion. First, sufficient deuterium has to ...
CHARLES PLATT I took Bobby Kennedy through the delta and he cried like a baby.
CHARLES EVERS The highest stage in moral culture at which we can arrive is when we recognize that we ought to cont...
CHARLES DARWIN I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free so as to give up any hypothesis, however much belove...
CHARLES DARWIN Without speculation there is no good and original observation.
CHARLES DARWIN The presence of a body of well-instructed men, who have not to labor for their daily bread, is impor...
CHARLES DARWIN It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most resp...
CHARLES DARWIN It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong'...
CHARLES DARWIN