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Darryl Pinckney Quotes

When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.

Darryl Pinckney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Life Writing Black Give Been Often

I follow my conscience - and this is upsetting to some people, but I maintain the conscience is going to be the only thing between us and communication in the future.

Communication Future People Follow

I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill.

Think Skill Right Paranoia I Think

What excites me is that I'm an ambassador for poetry, which is something that I wholeheartedly believe in and that has been an anchor and a force of stability and consolation throughout my life. I think that's good news.

Life Good Poetry Me Believe Think

The era of industrial Britain, where a large section of our workforce provided cheap labour in factories and processing goods, is over.

Cheap Workforce Over Industrial Era

The only thing I hated about the agency business was a lot of business travel. It was the only part of my job that I did not like. I found it very tedious and wearing.

Business Job Travel Only Agency Did

Working with Julie Andrews is like getting hit over the head with a valentine.

Christopher Plummer

Funny Over Head Working Like Hit

I'm just getting people warmed up a little bit at a time, a little bit at a time, so I can fully come with, like, a 'Fix You' - type record, or 'One' by U2.

Time People You I Can Fix Up

Seeing the world is the best education you can get. You see sorrow, and you also see great spirit and will to survive.

Education Great Best World Survive

People say that the most expensive piece of medical equipment is the doctor's pen. It's not that we make all the money. It's that we order all the money.

Money Medical People Doctor Pen Say

I'd never tried as hard with anything as I did with 'The Office,' and it was one of the things I'm proud of. I wasn't trying to be famous or a comedian, but this opportunity came along when I was 38 or 39. It came late, and I couldn't have been prouder of it.

Opportunity Proud Famous Trying Late

In the past, when Jay-Z did 'Best of Both Worlds' with R. Kelly, I thought it was a great album, but the campaign went south because of personalities.

Great Best Past Thought In The Past

God joins us together by means of the body, in consequence of the laws of the communication of movements. He affects us with the same feelings in consequence of the laws of the conjunction of body and soul.

Nicolas Malebranche

Communication God Together Soul Body

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