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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
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
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
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
