“ What is the American fetish about highways?They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers.Because something is after them, Black Herman adds.But what is after them?They are after themselves. They call it de… Ishmael Reed
“ What is the American fetish about highways?They want to get somewhere, LaBas offers.Because something is after them, Black Herman adds. Ishmael Reed
“ 61 lynchings occurred in 1920 alone. In 1921, 62, some of the victims, soldiers returning from the Great War who after fighting and winning significant victories - just as they had fought in the Revol… Ishmael Reed
“ 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
“ 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 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
“ Dualism::In Ralph Ellison's Invisible ManI am outside of history. i wish i had some peanuts, it looks hungry there in the cage.i am outside of history. its hungrier than i thot. Ishmael Reed
“ If Orwell had a chance to write from the vantage point of 1984 instead of 1948, perhaps he would have seen the class of hackers instead of the proles as a threat to Big Brother's rule. Ishmael Reed
“ Dance is the universal art, the common joy of expression. Those who cannot dance are imprisoned in their own ego and cannot live well with other people and the world. They have lost the tune of life.… Ishmael Reed
“ I think that when people like you , Mr. Von Vampton, say The Negro Experience you are saying that all Negroes experience the world the same way. In that way you can isolate the misfits who would prope… Ishmael Reed
“ I'm just 1 man. Not Faust nor the Kaiser nor the Ku Klux Klan. I am an individual, not a whole tribe or nation.That's what I'm counting on. But if there is such a thing as a racial soul, a piece of Fa… Ishmael Reed
“ I had no systematic way of learning but proceeded like a quilt maker, a patch of knowledge here a patch there but lovingly knitted. I would hungrily devour the intellectual scraps and leftovers of the… Ishmael Reed
“ Have you ever seen people line up outside a Van Gogh exhibit? When they get inside there are so many they can't even see the paintings, they just pass by like sheep or like mourners passing the tomb o… Ishmael Reed
“ . . Faust was an actual person. Somewhere between 1510 and 1540 this wandering conjurer and medical quack made his travels about the southwest German Empire, telling people his knowledge of secret thi… Ishmael Reed
“ The Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm. Ishmael Reed
“ To some if you owned your own mind you were indeed sick but when you possessed an Atonist mind you were healthy. A mind which sought to interpret the world by using a single loa. Somewhat like filling… Ishmael Reed
