“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.” MenArtBlackPositionGeniusMalesOriginalityDesperationGreat ArtAfrosPariahs Author:Ishmael Reed
“I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.” MenWorldBelieveBlackNew YorkThreatFeministWinnerPrizePrincipalNew York TimesClique Author:Ishmael Reed
“In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.” MenShowsRolesFiguresDevilWestMythologySmokingHatsGigsCigarWest AfricaHaitianTop Hats Author:Ishmael Reed
“[David] Mamet is another hypocrite. His idea of Black man is a pimp who abuses women, [Edmond], yet his play Oleanna [1994] ends with a White professor slapping an uppity feminist, at least the version I saw at San Francisco's ACT.” MenIdeasEndsPlayBlackWhiteSawsAbuseFeministVersionsProfessorsSan FranciscoHypocritePimpSlapping Author:Ishmael Reed
“Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.” MenHas BeensBookHardBigsMightYoungGuyBlackWhiteFiguresDirectorsProjectsStandardsPraiseSeriesFakeLos AngelesSexismYoung WomenMight Have BeenWireAdvancementRiceGhettoDouble StandardWhite GuysDowning Author:Ishmael Reed
“Phillip Roth uses his Black women characters to make anti intellectual remarks about Black history month, begun by a man who reached intellectual heights that Roth will never attain. Roth is a petty bigot and his ignorant remarks about black culture expose him as a buffoon to scholars the world over.” MenWorldCharacterUseCultureBlackMonthsIntellectualIgnorantHeightScholarBlack WomenPettyRemarksBlack HistoryBigotsBlack History MonthBuffoonsBlack Culture Author:Ishmael Reed
“Two of the great leaders of the past - Booker T. Washington and Frederick Douglass - had White fathers - who deserted them. Now Margo Jefferson, who is hard on me and the fellas, wrote in the Times that she has nocturnal, erotic fantasies about John Wayne. What's up with these feminists? Do you see these double standards these feminists have? They dream about John Wayne, but they're hard on us [Black men].” MenTwoHardDreamPastFatherBlackWhiteLeaderFantasyStandardsFeministEroticGreat LeaderWayneDouble StandardDesertedFellasNocturnal Author: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.” MenWantWritingShowsNovelOne ThingSixNewsClockDemonVaudevilleWild Man Book:Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down Source: Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down
“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.” MenYearsMatterFactsLastsBlackEconomicDifficultyMalesKillingLast YearMatter Of FactBlack MalesGraphs Author:Ishmael Reed
“Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.” MenWritingMadeMomentsExistenceProveContactFleetingBetter ManFleeting Moments Book:Shrovetide in old New Orleans Source: Shrovetide in old New Orleans
“During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shaw’s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'” IfsMenHas BeensStoriesLastsFilmBlackWhiteDecadesExcellentWarningWhite ManDegradeBernard Shaw Author:Ishmael Reed
“The liberal wing of the feminist movement may have improved the lives of its middle- and upper-class constituency--indeed, 1992 was the Year of the White Middle Class Woman--but since the leadership of this faction of the feminist movement has singled out black men as the meta-enemy of women, these women represent one of the most serious threats to black male well-being since the Klan.” MenYearsWellsMayBlackWhiteEnemyClassMiddleMovementSeriousWingsThreatMalesFeministWell BeingMiddle ClassFactionsUpper ClassFeminist MovementBlack Males Book:Airing Dirty Laundry Source: Airing Dirty Laundry
