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Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs. +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that we learn about ... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
I've always wondered why European politicians as a group seemed brighter than American politicians as a group. Maybe it's because many America... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art. +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
I'm beginning to believe that Killer Illiteracy ought to rank near heart disease and cancer as one of the leading causes of death among Americ... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
Few white citizens are acquainted with blacks other than those projected by the media and the so—called educational system, which is nothing... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make good make good... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
The treatment of African and African American culture in our education was no different from their treatment in Tarzan movies. +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
The last publicized center of American writing was Manhattan. Its writers became known as the New York Intellectuals. With important connectio... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed
The descendants of Holy Roman Empire monarchies became feeble-minded in the twentieth century, and after World War I had been done in by the d... +Fav | Go to this Ishmael Reed Quote | Ishmael Reed