I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Richard Price, who has made a fortune writing fake ghetto books, says he takes a cab into the ghetto, transcribes Black speech for a… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
When I say Afro-American aesthetic, I'm not just talking about the United States, I'm talking about the Americas. People in the Latin countries read… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
In Crash, you've got a pathological cop who at the end justifies police brutality. He tells the naïve, young cop that you're going to… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I get most my information about what's happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I asked Joe Weixlmann why he would print a death threat like that in light of the fact that there are all of these… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
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