Ishmael Quotes
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I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness.
— Ishmael Beah
We walked into the arms of the forest...
— Ishmael Beah
My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That's why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.
— Ishmael Reed
The plays raise issues that are ignored in other forums.
— Ishmael Reed
My squad is my family, my gun is my provider, and protector, and my rule is to kill or be killed.
— Ishmael Beah
As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
— Rabbi Ishmael
As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions.
— Ishmael Reed
Some nights the sky wept stars that quickly floated and disappeared into the darkness before our wishes could meet them.
— Ishmael Beah
I believe that there is a God, and coming from an African tradition, I believe also that there are gods.
— Ishmael Beah
Call me Ishmael.
— Herman Melville
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
Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.
— Ishmael Reed
I try to do what has never been done before.
— Ishmael Reed
I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently.
— Ishmael Reed
If you can't discover what's keeping you in, the will to get out soon becomes confused and ineffectual - Ishmael
— Daniel Quinn
All art must be for the end of liberating the masses. A landscape is only good when it shows the oppressor hanging from a tree.
— Ishmael Reed
The sun's brightness painted our shadows on the ground.
— Ishmael Beah
The branches of the trees looked as if they were holding hands and bowing their heads in prayer.
— Ishmael Beah
There were guys who prayed at Tarawa,' said Ishmael. 'They still got killed, Mother. Just like the guys who didn't pray. It didn't matter either way.
— David Guterson
The guy's got a CCI sheet so long it begins with 'Call me Ishmael.
— James Patterson
This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.
— Ishmael Beah
Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.
— Ishmael Beah
Arts and disciplines of that kind are fundamentally selfish; they're all designed to benefit the pupil - not the world - "Ishmael
— Daniel Quinn
What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing
— Ishmael Reed
I knew I could never forget my past, but I wanted to stop talking about it so that I would be fully present in my new life.
— Ishmael Beah
I grew up as a Muslim. I went to an Islamic elementary school. Most of my community was Muslim, so I grew up praying five times a day.
— Ishmael Beah
Captain Ahab drowned, he reminded himself; it was the trimmer, Ishmael, who survived.
— Salman Rushdie
In the spiritual life nowhere do our ideals meet the actual more truly than in how we relate to each other, in how we make, sustain and are friends.
— James Ishmael Ford
My childhood had gone by without my knowing, and it seemed as if my heart had frozen.
— Ishmael Beah
Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters.
— Ishmael Reed
We must strive to be like the moon
— Ishmael Beah
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
— Ishmael Reed
And I, Nephi, took one of the daughters of Ishmael to wife.' Well Mr. Go-And-Do just went and did!
— John Bytheway
I wanted to see my family, even if it meant dying with them.
— Ishmael Beah
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.
— Ishmael Reed
These days I live in three worlds: my dreams, and the experiences of my new life, which trigger memories from the past. (page 20)
— Ishmael Beah
Children played guessing games, telling each other whether the gun fired was and AK-47, a G3, an RPG, or a machine gun.
— Ishmael Beah
Morning to ye! Morning to ye!
— Herman Melville
I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.
— Ishmael Reed
My squad was my family, my gun was my provider and protector, and my rule was to kill or be killed.
— Ishmael Beah
It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.
— Ishmael Beah
I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."
— Ishmael Reed
In the sky there are always answers and explanations for everything: every pain, every suffering, joy and confusion.
— Ishmael Beah
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies.
— Ishmael Reed
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.
— Ishmael Reed
Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.
— Ishmael Reed
Sometimes I closed my eyes hard to avoid thinking, but the eye of the mind refused to be closed and continued to plague me with images.
— Ishmael Beah
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
— Ishmael Reed
As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated.
— Ishmael Beah
My teeth became sour as I listened to his story. It was then that I understood why he was quiet all the time.
— Ishmael Beah
We all knew that we could grieve only for a short while in order to continue staying alive.
— Ishmael Beah
But vain to popularize profundities, and all truth is profound.
— Herman Melville
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.
— Ishmael Reed
You don't have to see it to love it. Just love it for it is good and that is love.
— Christian Thogolith