Black Quotes by Ishmael Reed

My generation of writers has been prone to premature illness and death, especially the women. When Black male writers meet it's like…

— Ishmael Reed

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he…

— Ishmael Reed

I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors…

— Ishmael Reed

[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994]…

— Ishmael Reed

I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for…

— Ishmael Reed

I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a…

— Ishmael Reed

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position…

— Ishmael Reed

Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois.…

— Ishmael Reed

In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're…

— Ishmael Reed

I was roommates with 2 of the guys who were influential in forming the Black Arts philosophy. I called them "goons," and…

— Ishmael Reed

David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call…

— Ishmael Reed

Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by…

— Ishmael Reed

A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the…

— Ishmael Reed

The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year…

— Ishmael Reed

During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them…

— Ishmael Reed

The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was…

— Ishmael Reed

Another California study counted 30,000 substance abusers who are pregnant are White woman. So, The Wire paints the picture of drug addiction,…

— Ishmael Reed

The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred…

— Ishmael Reed

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times…

— Ishmael Reed

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.

— Ishmael Reed

Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low…

— Ishmael Reed

Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted…

— Ishmael Reed

Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce…

— Ishmael Reed

I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater…

— Ishmael Reed

Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached…

— Ishmael Reed

“African-American writers with an independent vision are often consigned to obscurity. The white critics can only tolerate one black writer at a…

— Ishmael Reed

Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech…

— Ishmael Reed

I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever…

— Ishmael Reed

Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout…

— Ishmael Reed