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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

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

As a writer, you explore all kinds of different emotions. — Ishmael Reed

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

We need to leave to the market and society what they can do well. — Li Keqiang

Tea Party members go to meetings on Medicare scooters. — Ishmael Reed

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

I like writing that's smart on the page. — Richard Ford

I don't do gossipy interviews because I don't think that helps; I think that's a distraction. — George Stroumboulopoulos

What we experience, as a perceptual experience, is not what is. It's very specific to the nervous system. — Deepak Chopra

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. — Ishmael Reed

If it is to be, it's up to me! — Kajsa Kinsella

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing — Ishmael Reed

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

Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. — Ishmael Reed

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

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

The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. — Ishmael Reed

I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque." — Ishmael Reed

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

Your social platform will become the motherboard of your business. — Sandy Carter