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With literature you can condemn the powerful, and you can critique the powerful.
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When I look at American civilization in terms of two thousand years, I think the European invasion and the white nationalism that followed might have been just an unhappy period, an unfortunate phase in civilizations that are thousands of years old.
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New York was possessed of that old European idea of respecting or even revering the writer or the artist. I mean, if you were black in those days, you could get by with one poem or one novel. If I had remained in New York, I would've been killed by an overdose of affection.
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I don't know where they get the bourgeois idea that art shouldn't be political.
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Neo-Hoodoo is the 8 basic dances of 19th century New Orleans' Place Congo- the Calinda the Bamboula the Chacta the Babouille the Conjaille the Juba the Congo and the VooDoo- modernized into the Philly Dog, the Hully Gully, the Funky Chicken, the Popcorn, the Boogaloo and the dance of great American choreographer Buddy Bradley.
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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 democracies; some were kept on to entertain the tourists, like the one they have in England.
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One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
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The universe is a spiraling Big Band in a polka-dotted speakeasy, effusively generating new light every one-night stand.
Sometimes misquoted as effectively instead of effusively
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Ishmael Reed
Born:
February 22, 1938
(age 86)
Bio:
Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, novelist, essayist, songwriter, playwright, editor and publisher, who is known for his satirical works challenging American political culture, and highlighting political and cultural oppression.
Known for:
Mumbo Jumbo (1972)
Flight to Canada (1976)
Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down (1969)
Japanese by spring (1993)
Reckless eyeballing (1986)
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