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Darryl Pinckney Quotes

Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.

Darryl Pinckney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Black America Two Always Divided

Allow yourself a few parties, but be mindful the rest of the time.

Jillian Michaels

Time Yourself Rest Mindful Allow

I thought it was my job to give all the boys their first kiss.

Job Kiss Thought First Give

For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.

Community People World Electricity

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today.

Today Style Copy Just Tried Until

Did you happen to catch the film I did between 'Lord of the Rings' and 'Kong?' It was a nice little Jennifer Garner comedy, '13 Going on 30,' and I play her boss. In my big scene, I get to moonwalk - pretty well, I thought - to Michael Jackson.

Boss Thought Comedy You Play Nice

My kids see feminism in action every day, and leading by imperfect example is how I'm raising them.

Amanda de Cadenet

Day Action Every Day Feminism See

It's not winning or losing. It's the friends and the people that you meet along the way.

Losing People Winning Friends You

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

Hollywood More Two Like Between Our

The reason people don't take Christianity very seriously anymore is because all people do is put it on their business cards and blab to get on television.

Business People Television Cards Get

The debt they ran up in the first year of the Obama administration is bigger than the last four years of the Bush combined.

Mitch McConnell

Year Debt First Years Up Bigger

I always look at myself as kind of a work in progress. I hope that's not always the case. But for me, every film is a learning experience.

Jonathan Levine

Work Learning Hope Myself Experience

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Dorothy Allison

Son Childhood Past Child Me Wolf

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