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Darryl Pinckney Quotes

The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth.

Darryl Pinckney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

Topics

Truth Imagination Color Purple Film

It can get pretty hectic in New Orleans whenever I go shopping. So I'll fly to Houston, buy my groceries, and then come back - nobody cares there because I'm not J.J. Watt.

Shopping Fly Back Nobody Go New

In the post-war United States, you had this race to the suburbs. Cities shrank, the suburbs got bigger - and the notion of community changed drastically. You went from all being very close together to all being spaced apart and slightly suspicious of one another.

Community Together You Race Bigger

In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?

Success Time Woman Soul Man My Soul

You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.

Robert Gottlieb

New York Parents You New Out Act

I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story.

Time Story Tell Take Visual Artists

I once dated someone who worked at McDonald's. She came up and asked if I wanted a Big Mac.

Someone McDonald She Up Big Who

We can constitutionally extirpate slavery at this time.

Robert Dale Owen

I'm really happy with Elektra, I don't have anything bad to say about them at all. I always knew a major label was the right place for me to be. I never really had an opportunity to go to an independent label anyway.

Opportunity Happy Me Bad Place Go

Life is the movie you see through your own eyes. It makes little difference what's happening out there. It's how you take it that counts.

Life Eyes You Difference See Out

What is uttered is finished and done with.

Done Finished Uttered

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Hope Poetry Healing Potential Bad

Nobody wants to take a hard look of the entitlement system to see what it is.

Kimberly Guilfoyle

Look Nobody Hard See Entitlement

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