Best quotes by Darryl Pinckney on History

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  • The history of blacks is complicated, fragmented, disturbing to contemplate - not a neat trail of challenges met or of felled trees blocking the path to the mountain top.
    - Darryl Pinckney
  • The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.
    - Darryl Pinckney
  • Harlem's streets lead backward, into history, straight to a work such as 'This Was Harlem.'
    - Darryl Pinckney
  • 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
  • History is a sly boots, and for a generation of blacks that cannot identify with the frustrations of Jim Crow, and for whites who cannot understand the hard deal that faces working-class blacks, it is difficult to reconcile Hughes's reputation as a poet-hero with his topical verse and uncomplicated prose.
    - Darryl Pinckney