“ The novel and the film of 'The Color Purple' are both works of the imagination that make claim to historical truth. Darryl Pinckney
“ 'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past. Darryl Pinckney
“ The city - as the theater of experience, the refuge, the hiding place - has, in turn, been replaced by an abstraction, the fast lane. In the fast lane, the passive observer reduces everything - street… Darryl Pinckney
“ Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and often the distinctions are blurred, as in, say, the way the low life of Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward is depic… Darryl Pinckney
“ Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you met that former… Darryl Pinckney
