All Ishmael Reed Quotes
- Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. All
- No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news,… Clock
- Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. Go
- Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba… American
- What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing Creeping
- Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art. Art
- Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. Baseball
- I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty.… All
- One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. Ability
- I try to do what has never been done before. Been
- Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. Better
- We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets. Culture
- That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was… Black
- During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But… Been
- My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff. Able
- The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White… Black
- The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the… African
- The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the democracies;… Became
- A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with… Black
- In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists… Backgrounds
- I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes… Caused
- I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to… American
- Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. Hard