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Ishmael Reed

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No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.


— Ishmael Reed


#novels #writers #writing #men

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


#california #civil #civil liberties #considered #crouch

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.


— Ishmael Reed


#imagination #labor #manual #manual labor #poetry

I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipline problem in a racist society is sometimes an honor.


— Ishmael Reed


#caused #discipline #embarrassment #honor #i

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


— Ishmael Reed


#bad #bad idea #enterprise #free #free enterprise

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


#black #could #difficulty #economic #fact

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


#baseball #become #blacks #chicago #chicago cubs






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September 11 2011 in a Jazz à la Villette concert at the Grande Halle in Paris the Red Bull Music Academy World Tour premiered 3 new songs with lyrics by Ishmael Reed performed by Macy Gray Tony Allen members of The Roots David Murray and his Big Band Amp Fiddler and Fela! singer/dancers. 2007
Hume. The Review of Contemporary Fiction Volume 4 Number 2 Summer 1984.

Reed's work has often sought to represent neglected African and African-American perspectives his energy and advocacy have centered more broadly on neglected peoples and perspectives irrespective of their cultural origins. Ishmael Scott Reed (born February 22 1938) is an American poet essayist playwright and novelist. Reed is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture and highlighting political and cultural oppression.

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