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Ishmael Reed Quote: “A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.”

51. “A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.”

52. “A black boxer’s career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “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 of a fallen hero, a bier, with the same solemnity. And the extent of their knowledge concerning Van Gogh is that he “cut off his ear.” Man, it’s religion they make it into.”

53. “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 of a fallen hero, a bier, with the same solemnity. And the extent of their knowledge concerning Van Gogh is that he “cut off his ear.” Man, it’s religion they make it into.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “I get most my information about what’s happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.”

54. “I get most my information about what’s happening in the United States from reports and studies, which are often in conflict with what you read on the editorial pages, or handouts from right wing institutions like the American Enterprise Institute.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.”

55. “Whites have been the most subsidized group in the history of the United States and maybe the history of the world, while Blacks were enslaved and were the assets of Whites.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That’s why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.”

56. “My novels and poems are meant to be read aloud. That’s why jazz musicians have been able to adapt my stuff.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.”

57. “Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.”

58. “I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank Sinatra. Phillip Roth.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “Orthodoxy is my Doxy, Heterodoxy is the other fellow’s Doxy.”

59. “Orthodoxy is my Doxy, Heterodoxy is the other fellow’s Doxy.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.”

60. “Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “I try to do what has never been done before.”

61. “I try to do what has never been done before.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.”

62. “We will leap tall couplets in a single bound.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “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.”

63. “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.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “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.”

64. “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.”

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Ishmael Reed Quote: “I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.”

65. “I think there are fundamentalists all over the world. I think all religions have fundamentalists who have different interpretations of scriptures that are very vague.”

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