Categories Quote by Ishmael Reed

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and…

— Ishmael Reed

My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.

— Ishmael Reed

“Whenever we go through a period of de-Americanization like what is currently affecting South Asians, Arabs, and Muslim Americans, a whole generation of Americans…

— Bill Ong Hing

“It’s almost like that’s the definition of being American: You love becoming Irish for a day, or becoming Italian… Or becoming a Negro for…

— Josh Alan Friedman

People that are willing to fight for their rights is the real definition of the American Dream.

— Merle Rutledge

I think we just have to be mindful of what that definition of an American dream is. I think we are faced with a…

— Lee Isaac Chung

“My definition of an American Idol is someone who is a great talent and who communicates well with the audience”

— Blake Lewis

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

In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by…

— Ishmael Reed

I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's…

— Ishmael Reed

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There…

— Hemingway, Ernest

As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore…

— Tim Cahill

Clutter is the disease of American writing,

— William Zinsser

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out.

— Arthur Miller