Darryl Pinckney > Quotes

“Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former love for coffee, because you couldn’t see what you once saw. But there are those few books that can still move you in the old, throbbing way."
"How I got over”
― Darryl Pinckney

“IN the book of my heart, pages keep falling out, many of them marked "Mom and Dad.”
― Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland

“One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....”
― Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

“She may be a monster, Jeddie, but remember she’s our monster,” Mom explained to me early on.”
― Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland

“If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?”
― Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

“I was fixed on the realization that life was serious; it offered no do-overs. You don’t get up from play and head home wondering what happened to the fireflies of childhood.”
― Darryl Pinckney, Black Deutschland