Facts about Ishmael Reed

Occup.Poet
FromUSA
BornFebruary 22, 1938
Age86 years

Summary

Ishmael Reed is a famous Poet from USA, he/she is 86 years old and still alive, born February 22, 1938.

Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac pisces, who is known for Fluctuation, Depth, Imagination, Reactive, Indecisive. Our collection contains 7 quotes who is written / told by Ishmael.

7 Famous quotes by Ishmael Reed

Small: Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination
"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination"
Small: Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art
"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art"
Small: Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are alw
"Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs"
Small: I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply p
"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"
Small: Im sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased
"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"
Small: I used to be a discipline problem, which caused me embarrassment until I realized that being a discipli
"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"
Small: That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they dont receive that kind o
"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"