Top 25 Quotes by Ishmael Reed of 87 - Page 4

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 Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of

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 Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.

Ishmael Reed

Men, Years, Class

Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

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 to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

Ishmael Reed

Country, Weekend, Thinking

"Ishmael Reed – July 1-7, 1983, in Emeryville, California". Interviewed with Reginald Martin, aalbc.com. July 1, 1983.

My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.

Ishmael Reed

Poetry, Musician, Able

The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connections to publishing, and universities, with access to the major book reviews, they were able to pose as the vanguard of American culture when they were so obsessed with the two Joes--McCarthy and Stalin--that they were to produce only two artists, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, who left town.

Ishmael Reed

Art, New York, Book

Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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.

Ishmael Reed

Jobs, Hippie, California

Interview with Reginald Martin, www.dalkeyarchive.com. July, 1983.

statistic: the us bureau of missing persons reports that in 1968 over 100,000 people disappeared leaving no solid clues nor traceonly a space in the lives of their friends.

Ishmael Reed

Space, People, Missing

Ishmael Reed (1988). “New and collected poems”, Scribner

If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.

Ishmael Reed

Brooklyn Bridge, Bridges, America

Ishmael Reed (2013). “Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel”, p.18, Open Road Media

I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's becausemany American politicians have the race issue to fall back on. They become lazy, suspicious of innovative ideas, and as a result American institutions atrophy.

Ishmael Reed

Fall, Race, Ideas

Ishmael Reed (1982). “God made Alaska for the Indians: selected essays”, Scholarly Title

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

Ishmael Reed

Art, Ideas, Enterprise

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, as long as my literary legs hold up.

Ishmael Reed

Writing, Thinking, Long

Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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.

Ishmael Reed

Men, Years, Black

"A Conversation with Ishmael Reed". Interview with Reginald Martin, www.dalkeyarchive.com. July 1-7, 1983.