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Darryl Pinckney Quotes

'Invisible Man' holds such an honored place in African-American literature that Ralph Ellison didn't have to write anything else to break bread with the remembered dead. But he did try to go on, because if a writer has done one great thing, then the pressures to do another are intense.

Darryl Pinckney

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: 1953

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Great Man Literature Place Go Done

I always get quite close to my script because I work quite hard on them.

Work Hard Always Because Get Close

Housing is absolutely essential to human flourishing. Without stable shelter, it all falls apart.

Matthew Desmond

Human Housing Without Shelter Stable

The United States did not act in Iraq in 1988 when gas was being used on the Kurds or when gas was used in the Iranian-Iraq War.

War Act United Used Being Gas

I've been to so many dos and presentation dinners and TV shows. I've been among all the top stars - soap stars, people from music - it's been brilliant. But I've kept my feet on the ground.

Stars Music People Feet Brilliant

I did not come here to repeat what you already know. I have come to reveal something new. I want to share with you a new revelation from God.

God You New Know Want Repeat

Just because I'm a girl and it's pop doesn't mean I have to write about love and heartbreak.

Love Girl Just Because Mean Write

Pollock really invented something. No one painted like him - or de Kooning or Still.

Roy Lichtenstein

Him Something Still Like Really

The people who are the most powerful and have the most money sometimes don't value other people.

Money Value People Powerful Most

When I'm drawing, I'm drawing with the light, being completely open and creative. I can't draw in the evening. I need light and I need warmth if it is a summer thing, and I need cold if it is a winter collection. The good thing is that I have houses to go to whenever I'm working. I draw according to the place.

Christian Louboutin

Winter Good Light Creative Cold Go

The moments that I feel a huge sense of accomplishment are actually the smaller moments, not really the bigger ones, the televised ones.

Accomplishment Feel Moments Bigger

The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.

Alice Weaver Flaherty

Ideas Skin Head Going Like Explode

You can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing.

Life Writing You Down Always Boil

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