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I was still hesitant to let myself let go, because I still believed in the fragility of happiness. — Ishmael Beah

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

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

Shred my beard and call me Ishmael!" the captain shouted. He — Lisa McMann

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

Vanity is so superficial. It doesn't provide the grounds for progress. — Ishmael Butler

Call me Ishmael. — Herman Melville

ONE OF THE UNSETTLING THINGS about my journey, mentally, physically, and emotionally, was that I wasn't sure when or where it was going to end. — Ishmael Beah

We danced and laughed into the morning. But gradually we stopped. It was as if we all knew that we could be happy for only a brief moment. — Ishmael Beah

David Simon goes to the Jewish Weekly and said he's made all this money, but he can't enjoy it because of criticism by people like Ishmael Reed. — 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

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

Ishmael had the posture of a classic general; the intellect of a cab driver. — Jarrett McCall

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

This isn't your fault, you know. It really isn't. You'll get though this. (page 151) — Ishmael Beah

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

Most of the staff members were like that; they returned smiling after we hurt them. It was as if they had made a pact not to give up on us. — Ishmael Beah

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

I took out my grenade and put my fingers inside the pin. 'Do you boys want this to be your last meal, or do you want to answer his question? — Ishmael Beah

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

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life. — Ishmael Beah

One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind. — Ishmael Reed

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

You can only threaten someone with hell if they have never had hell — Ishmael Beah

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

I would try desperately to think about my childhood, but I couldn't. The war memories had formed a barrier that I had to break in order to think — 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 was glad to see other faces and at the same time disappointed that the war had destroyed the enjoyment of the very experience of meeting people. — 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

We had not only lost our childhood in the war but our lives had been tainted by the same experiences that still caused us great pain and sadness. — Ishmael Beah

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

It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling. — Ishmael Beah

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

Call me Ishmael. I won't answer to it, because it's not my name. — Jenny Lawson

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

Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more — Ishmael Beah

As a child soldier, your rights are constantly violated. — Ishmael Beah

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak. — 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

Children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance. — 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

This days one must be careful to avoid awakening the pain of another. — Ishmael Beah

You don't have to see it to love it. Just love it for it is good and that is love. — Christian Thogolith