“The cultural wars of the sixties are over. I've reconciled with those who were my critics and opponents years ago. I was at odds with some those who were Black nationalists. Yet when feminists attempted to end my career and leave me as literary road kill, it was the Black nationalists who came to my rescue.” YearsWarEndsBlackCareersYears AgoCriticsFeministOpponentsRescueOddsSixtyLeaving Me Author:Ishmael Reed
“David Simon [the creator of The Wire] and I have a running controversy for years. It all stems from a telephone call I made to KPFA [Pacifica radio] when he was a guest there in the 90's on Chris Welche's show. He was going around the country with a Black kid from the Ghetto to promote something called The Corner - it was all about Blacks as degenerates selling drugs, etc.” YearsMadeCountryShowsRunningKidsBlackDrugRadioCreatorCornersSellingEtcGuestsStemTelephonesControversyWireGhettoDegeneratesSelling Drugs Author:Ishmael Reed
“Hateful material travels the globe. A few years ago, CNN, America's Der Sturmer, ran a story about Black parents being so low down that they abandoned their children and the children had to eat rats. I was at a University in Wisconsin at the time and the mother of a student from South Africa called to see whether the story was true. She had seen it all the way over there. The story was untrue. The children lied. CNN never corrected the story.” WayYearsChildrenStoriesAmericaMotherParentBlackStudentsMaterialsLowsYears AgoSouthUniversityRanAbandonedSouth AfricaGlobesRatsLiedHatefulUntrueCnnWisconsin Author:Ishmael Reed
“I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.” PeopleKnowsYearsMindWellsAgeBlackWhiteMediaRootsThirtyNativeFortyAssociationNative AmericanIgnoredAsianHispanicMulticulturalAsian American Author:Ishmael Reed
“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
“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
