Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque." — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix. — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
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 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