Ishmael Reed

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.

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.

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.

Ethnic life in the United States has become a sort of contest like baseball in which the blacks are always the Chicago Cubs.

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

Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.