Awards Quote by Ishmael Reed

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

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

Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.

— Ishmael Reed

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

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.

— Ishmael Reed

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

Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

— Ishmael Reed

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

— 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 going to…

— Ishmael Reed

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

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

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