129 Quotes by Ishmael Reed

Americans will not tolerate wars that can’t be explained in simple terms of economics or the White man’s destiny.

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.

Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it’s important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.

I walked out on American Gangster: this evil piece of dreck. Defenders of this junk say that these movies give Black actors jobs. So did “Birth of a Nation.”

What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing.

We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.

Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price’s tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history.

Time is a pendulum. Not a river. More akin to what goes around comes around.

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.