Ishmael Reed Quotes

"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
(Related: Life, Baseball, Chicago, states, United)

"That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer."
- Ishmael Reed
(Related: People, Country, Day, Prison)

"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
(Related: American, Civil liberties, Job)

"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art."
- Ishmael Reed
(Related: Art, Idea)

"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."
- Ishmael Reed
(Related: Imagination, Poetry, Labor, Writing)

"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
(Related: Society, Discipline, Being, Embarrassment, Honor)