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Men Quotes by Ishmael Reed
- 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,…
- 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.…
- Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.
- 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…
- 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…
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- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
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- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
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