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Top 20 Darryl Pinckney Quotes (2024 Update)

Darryl Pinckney Quote: “I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting – anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.”

1. “I can see criticizing, complaining, protesting – anything but choosing not to vote. Too many people died for us not to vote.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It’s a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.”

2. “Identity has several parts, and the self needs to expand. Black youth should be encouraged to have as many parts or as rich an identity as possible. It’s a form of allowing them to be curious about the world.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “It’s not true that voting doesn’t make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don’t want to inadvertently end up doing someone’s bidding.”

3. “It’s not true that voting doesn’t make a difference. To check out is political suicide. This is especially true for our young black artists. You don’t want to inadvertently end up doing someone’s bidding.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.”

4. “Economic justice is not just something blacks are crying out for; whites are desperate for it, too. But in the public imagination, the face of poverty is black. In all actuality, the face of poverty is white.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.”

5. “In the 19th century, Berlin was called the German Chicago. Or Chicago was called the American Berlin because they were sort of new cities or new powerhouses.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.”

6. “The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “There’s a class divide in black America that doesn’t seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can’t afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.”

7. “There’s a class divide in black America that doesn’t seem to trouble black Americans so much, but whites use it and exploit it. The progress of a few is allowed to stand for the progress of everyone. We can’t afford that kind of disaffection at the moment.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you’re writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You’re trying to tell someone about something that they may know nothing about. They depend on you to read or interpret as best as you can.”

8. “When you are writing the kind of criticism you hope you’re writing, everything depends on keeping your calm or your cool. You’re trying to tell someone about something that they may know nothing about. They depend on you to read or interpret as best as you can.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “It’s important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.”

9. “It’s important for the progressive youth to remember that the agenda you set today is the agenda that will matter tomorrow. If you are engaged and active, it means you are one of the lucky ones and you are awake. Most people are not there yet.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There’s nothing that can be done about that; it’s just where we are in the history of our perceptions.”

10. “Being a liberal progressive has been demonized as anti-white or overly on the side of blacks. There’s nothing that can be done about that; it’s just where we are in the history of our perceptions.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we’re desperately hanging onto, that we don’t want to see further eroded.”

11. “Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we’re desperately hanging onto, that we don’t want to see further eroded.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “When you’re writing fiction it’s a heightened voice. You’re trying to cast a spell, which isn’t the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it’s a different sort of performance.”

12. “When you’re writing fiction it’s a heightened voice. You’re trying to cast a spell, which isn’t the same thing as trying to cast someone into it. You are creating a reality but it’s a different sort of performance.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “I think at the beginning of one’s writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It’s also often a mistake.”

13. “I think at the beginning of one’s writing life, negative reviews are what one does to get attention and stake out your territory. It’s also often a mistake.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?”

14. “Marriage equality is a very middle-class issue and voting rights is a very working-class issue. If you do not vote, who are you speaking for? Who will be the next Fannie Lou Hamer? If not you or someone you know, then who?”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Criticism shouldn’t be a performance that upstages the work it’s talking about.”

15. “Criticism shouldn’t be a performance that upstages the work it’s talking about.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “You can get away with anything as long as it works.”

16. “You can get away with anything as long as it works.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked “Mom and Dad.”

17. “IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked “Mom and Dad.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “It’s not nothing when you’re abroad and you don’t have a washing machine.”

18. “It’s not nothing when you’re abroad and you don’t have a washing machine.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it’s not such a big deal.”

19. “Europe was a very contentious subject in literature and yet jazz musicians still depended on Europe. Now it’s not such a big deal.”

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Darryl Pinckney Quote: “The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren’t like you – especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.”

20. “The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren’t like you – especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.”

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