The point of Berlin was that it seemed that only people like you ran the city. You never ran into people who weren't like you - especially when you lived as that kind of American in Berlin connected to the arts.
Darryl PinckneyI think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the temptation of disaffection. People looked for alternative ways to express themselves personally and politically, people doubted the system, and there was the terrible kind of division in black America between a radical leadership and a much older, compromising leadership.
Darryl PinckneyPeople from Europe and people from Africa encountered one another long before the invention of "Europe" and "Africa" and "white people" and "black people."
Darryl Pinckney