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I am the Democratic Party's absolutely worst nightmare. Why is that? Well, you see, I am a black conservative Republican running against one of the most vulnerable Democrats in America in 2016.
Darryl Glenn
You
Conservative
Black
Party
Worst
Running
See
Absolutely
Most
Democratic
Well
Vulnerable
Democrats
Am
America
Republican
Against
Why
Nightmare
When writing on black life, whites have often been unwelcome, usually called upon to give witness or hauled in as the accused.
Darryl Pinckney
Life
Writing
Witness
Black
Hauled
Give
Unwelcome
Been
Accused
Often
Whites
In the years after World War I, blacks began to migrate to the North and its imagined freedoms in great numbers - 'Russian' came to mean a black who had rushed from the South.
Darryl Pinckney
War
Great
World
Black
Rushed
Russian
Blacks
Had
Freedoms
Came
Years
South
Began
North
After
Mean
Migrate
Who
World War
World War I
Imagined
Numbers
I wrote 'Black Deutschland' very quickly one summer, probably because I had a lot of it in pieces and fragments sitting around over the years as false starts or notes.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Starts
Fragments
Summer
Had
Over
Pieces
Wrote
Because
Around
Years
False
Lot
Very
Quickly
Sitting
Notes
Paule Marshall does not let the black women in her fiction lose. While they lose friends, lovers, husbands, homes, or jobs, they always find themselves.
Darryl Pinckney
Women
Black
Lose
Jobs
Find
Marshall
Husbands
Does
Always
Friends
Fiction
While
Lovers
Themselves
Homes
Her
Harlem exists in retrospect, in the memory of grandparents or elderly cousins, those 'old-timers' ever ready with their geysers of remembered scenes. The legends of 'Black Mecca' are preserved in the glossy musicals of Times Square and in texts of virtually every kind.
Darryl Pinckney
Memory
Black
Every
Preserved
Virtually
Those
Musicals
Kind
Scenes
Remembered
Retrospect
Ready
Cousins
Exists
Texts
Square
Times
Times Square
Legends
Elderly
Grandparents
Mecca
Ever
Harlem
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
History
People
Value
Black
Increases
Pushed
New
Getting
The History Of
Manhattan
Story
Land
Farther
Uses
None of the black abolitionist newspapers, the first of which appeared in 1827, was in existence after the Civil War.
Darryl Pinckney
War
Black
First
Civil
Civil War
None
Existence
After
Which
Newspapers
Appeared
After Reconstruction, black newspapers evolved from being a propaganda arm into a kind of opposition press, because even the friends of former slaves had their fears.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Fears
Press
Evolved
Kind
Reconstruction
Propaganda
Had
Arm
Because
Opposition
Friends
Being
After
Former
Newspapers
Even
Slaves
As long as white newspapers were unwilling or unable to attack 'anti-Negro' forces or to air the views of black reformers, there was a service black newspapers could provide.
Darryl Pinckney
Service
Black
Long
White
Air
Unable
Attack
Could
Forces
Unwilling
Were
Provide
Newspapers
Views
Black America has always felt itself divided into two classes: the mucky-mucks and the folk.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Black America
Folk
Classes
Divided
Felt
Always
Itself
America
Two
The demise of Reconstruction had made it hard for blacks to acquire capital or to pass on property to their children. As blacks were driven from all but the most limited spheres of business and political life, the prestige of the professional rose in the black community.
Darryl Pinckney
Life
Property
Business
Political
Black
Made
Community
Rose
Spheres
Prestige
Black Community
Reconstruction
Blacks
Driven
Had
Demise
Most
Limited
Pass
Were
Political Life
Children
Acquire
Capital
Hard
Professional
Ellison was prominent on the lecture circuit even in the Black Aesthetic days of the Sixties when his defiantly pro-American and prickly-proud intellectual act met with some hostility.
Darryl Pinckney
Black
Met
Circuit
Prominent
Some
Hostility
Days
Aesthetic
His
Lecture
Intellectual
Pro-American
Sixties
Act
Even
I grew up in a very racially integrated place called Pottstown. It was an agricultural / industrial town which has since become a suburb of Philadelphia. I grew up basically in a black neighborhood.
Daryl Hall
Black
Become
Neighborhood
Since
Town
Industrial
Integrated
Up
Very
Grew
Place
Which
Suburb
Agricultural
Basically
Philadelphia
We moved to a town that's predominately Caucasian, some Hispanic and one or two black families, and they do shrimping for a living. Here come hundreds of Vietnamese doing the same occupation. So there was a lot of tension because people were saying we were taking money, shrimp, fish or whatever it is.
Dat Nguyen
Saying
People
Money
Black
Whatever
Living
Hundreds
One Or Two
Some
Taking
Tension
Town
Come
Occupation
Because
Caucasian
Doing
Fish
Were
Hispanic
Lot
Families
Same
Moved
Vietnamese
Shrimp
Here
Two
Science has proved that everything is energy, and now they have dark energy, dark matter. They don't call it all-embracing consciousness; they call it dark because they can't measure it. You know, paint it black.
Dave Davies
You
Science
Dark
Matter
Black
Energy
Everything
Know
Call
Because
Proved
Measure
Paint
Now
Consciousness
It's a slippery slope when you make the argument that hip hop is only a black person's art. Certainly, its origins are in that community, but if you want it to endure as an art form you have to let other people have their way with it.
Dave Itzkoff
Art
You
People
Black
Argument
Community
Other
Way
Slippery
Slippery Slope
Hop
Slope
Only
Make
Hip
Hip-Hop
Art Form
Person
Want
Endure
Form
Certainly
Origins
I liked Rebecca Black's 'Friday.'
Dave Rubin
Black
Liked
Friday
I couldn't wait to be, you know, a Black Panther. Of course they wouldn't let me join.
David Alan Grier
Me
You
Wait
Black
Panther
Join
Know
Course
I have this Martin electric/acoustic that's made of black formica. Really cool.
David Berman
Black
Made
Martin
Really
Cool
The Americans at heart are a pure and noble people; things to them are in black and white. It's either 'rawk' or it's not. We Brits putter around in the grey area.
David Bowie
Heart
People
Black
Black And White
Pure
White
Brits
Area
Noble
Putter
Around
American
Grey
Either
Them
Things
Whether you're black or white, you're a human - and that's what matters.
David Bryan
You
Black
Matters
White
Black Or White
Human
Whether
If I'm doing a logo, I'll do it in black and white. Once the form is feeling right, only then do I start exploring the color palettes. A good example was the process of rebranding the Salvador Dali Museum. I did at least 100 versions in black and white.
David Carson
Good
Black
Black And White
Example
Feeling
White
Once
Only
Color
Least
Doing
Versions
Salvador
Salvador Dali
Did
Form
Process
Then
Exploring
Good Example
Right
Start
Dali
Museum
What makes something pop? It's really just the bed it's placed in. If I grab melodies by Black Sabbath or Metallica and take them out of their musical bed and put them into a pop context, it's not like they wouldn't translate.
David Draiman
Black
Musical
Melodies
Out
Black Sabbath
Something
Sabbath
Take
Put
Like
Makes
Metallica
Bed
Context
Grab
Just
Placed
Them
Translate
Really
Pop
Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace
Oppression
Pride
Black
Poverty
Hideous
Rap
Response
Some
Blacks
Parody
Like
Sixties
Conscious
We have a generation of black actors playing leading roles on film and TV - Idris Elba, Chiwetel Ejiofor - which is great and is breaking the mould.
David Harewood
Great
Generation
Black
TV
Leading
Mould
Roles
Which
Breaking
Film
Actor
Film And TV
Playing
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