Darryl Pinckney Quotes

I'm a big James Baldwin fan.

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change.

The first African-American leader was Dr. Martin Luther King.

My all-time heroes are Thurgood Marshall and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., two men who had to really work to achieve what they did. And I had the privilege of meeting them both.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

I marched back then - I was in a civil-rights musical, Fly Blackbird, and we met Martin Luther King.

These young people have to know that Dr. King and others made it possible for them to do their Hip Hopping.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I'm on today.

I have a lot of respect for Martin Luther King. I think he was one of the greatest orators that the country ever produced.

Maya Angelou was the voice of three generations. Her poetry spanned our journey, chronicled our hearts and documented our struggles as we moved from the orations of Martin Luther King to the presidency of Barack Obama.

I think if people really read Martin Luther King, Jr., then they would begin to understand what he really represented.

I've always had sort of an interest in American history, full stop, and especially people who contributed to the civil rights struggle.

I grew up reading Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

[James] Baldwin was a celebrity. A TV show like Kenneth Clark could put him aside of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. He was, at least, one of the three most important spokesmen of the movement and of the black community.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.

I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings.

It was Dr. King's tireless activism that fostered our modern way of relating to one another.

I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.

It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.

I was born after the Civil Rights Movement. I never saw Martin Luther King alive.

When I wrote 'The Secret Life of Bees,' I was writing about civil rights.

I loved Martin Luther King more than a brother.

I grew up in the 1960s in Memphis, and my father was a member of the American Civil Liberties Union. I was born three years before Martin Luther King was killed, and I think that history of civil action was something that I had in my blood.

I was proud to march beside some of the most notable Civil Rights activists, such as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Rev. Jesse Jackson, and Joseph L. Rauh, Jr., from Selma to Montgomery.