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Darryl Pinckney Quotes

Steven Spielberg's 'The Color Purple' might as well have been about a bunch of dancing eggplants for all it has to say about black history.

Darryl Pinckney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

History Color Black Say Purple Well

When you're on a submarine you're usually underwater for months at a time, and you don't get to Skype or make phone calls. When you get messages, they're maybe two sentences. They're very short.

Time Short You Phone Underwater Two

I'm not a partygoer.

Poetry Think Hard See Just Kids

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.

Good End Enjoy Person Nice Three

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

Drink More Write Contemporary Than

The problem is, of course, that these interest groups are all asking for changes, but their enthusiasm for change rapidly disappears when it affects the core of their own interests.

Change Problem Enthusiasm Changes

I'm not as worried about the process of writing, simply because I think I've got that one down, you know? I think I know what brings specificity to these ideas, what brings specificity to the genre elements, or anything else, and it's personal emotions.

Ideas Writing Think Process You

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

Men Equality View Point Of View Two

I want to say unequivocally the Queen is magnificent. She is the enduring force, she is the glue that makes everyone feel good. She is beloved. I would rue the day when she may not be here.

Good Day Queen Feel Good Feel Want

Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.

Eyes Day I Am Remember Every Day Go

There was never a point in my life where I gave up. My marriage, as you know, fell apart.

Life Marriage My Life You Know Up

You're creating a different world and the actor's job is to be able to convince the audience to enter into that world, whether it be actually something that you recognize from your own life or not.

Life Job World You Creating Actor

For some reason, it is always thrilling to spot your home town in the news.

Home News Reason Always Your Some

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