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Ishmael Reed Quotes

That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer.

Ishmael Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: american
Birth: February 22, 1938

Topics

Day People Black Prison Think Kind

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

Joe Jonas

Learn Meet Try Always Something Fan

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

Joan D. Vinge

World Run Out System Own Weight

If I'm the people's poet, then I ought to be in people's hands - and, I hope, in their heart.

Maya Angelou

Hope Heart People Hands Poet Ought

Be careful of success; it has a dark side.

Robert Redford

Success Dark Dark Side Be Careful

I can't be around someone who is negative because I am such a positive person. If you are mean, then we don't speak.

Trevor Jackson

Positive I Am Negative Speak Someone

Don't put yourself on a pedestal. Because it's very easy for someone to knock you off.

Rob Halford

Yourself Someone Easy You Off Knock

I'm not an adulterer. I'm not gay.

Michael Strahan

Gay

Truth is much stranger than fiction and, often, much more powerful.

Mira Nair

Truth Truth Is Powerful More Fiction

As a young queer kid growing up, I explored my identity through the Chicago and Washington, D.C., club scene.

Chelsea Manning

Identity Growing Up Growing Young Up

I would not like to try any high stress job. Honestly, I wouldn't like something like a PR job. I can't diffuse situations.

Chrissy Teigen

Stress Job Try High Something Would

My mother always bought our birthday gifts.

Bruce Eric Kaplan

Birthday Mother Always Gifts Our

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

Ashton Kutcher

Good Wait Good Things Believe Think