Quotes by Ishmael Reed
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
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 an honor.
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. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.
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 be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch.
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connectio...
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing...
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that we learn about ...
I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's because many America...
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make good make good...
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 d...
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americ...
