Blackballed Quotes

“If a person cannot imagine a future, then we would say that that person is depressed. But fi a country cannot envision a future, how do we describe its condition?”
― Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics

“One thing about pessimism is that it feels sane. Pessimists are those who can't be taken in, people who can't be fooled. I told you so. But it is also a habit of mind. It reconciles us to being powerless. It justifies detachment, indifference. It is even fear of having power....”
― Darryl Pinckney, Blackballed: Black American Voting Rights and U.S. Electoral Politics