The rise of fascism in Europe sent most Americans home. Some black American communists who had emigrated to the Soviet Union perished in Stalin's pur…

- Darryl Pinckney

You can get away with anything as long as it works.

- Darryl Pinckney

In her excellent, entirely readable Richard Wright, Hazel Rowley accomplishes what [previous biographer] Michel Fabre would have liked to do with onc…

- Darryl Pinckney

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. …

- Darryl Pinckney

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…

- Darryl Pinckney

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…

- Darryl Pinckney

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 m…

- Darryl Pinckney

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 …

- Darryl Pinckney

As for the not-black black president issue - white people can imagine blacks worse off than them, no problem. And now they can imagine blacks better …

- Darryl Pinckney