Pinky belongs to a group of American films with a new attitude to racial questions. (p. 107)

[It] is a film about principles; but principles conveyed by emotional means—and rightly so conveyed; for colour prejudice, whatever elements of reason it may embrace or conceal, is in essence an emotional force, and will be defeated only by a stronger emotional force. Pinky is an extremely moving piece of work; moving in its acting, its direction and its writing. It is a good film, in fact, not because it has a praiseworthy subject … but because it speaks to us with understanding, pity and indignation of the suffering, the courageous human figure. (p. 108)

Dilys Powell, in her review of "Pinky," in Shots in the Dark: A Collection of Reviewers' Opinions of Some of the Leading Films Released between January 1949 and February 1951, Edgar Anstey, General Editor, Allan Wingate Ltd., 1951, pp. 107-09.