Ishmael Reed Quotes

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

Ishmael Reed

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeBaseballChicagoBecomeAlways

No matter who or what you support, I believe in supporting fairness first.

Jennette McCurdy

SupportBelieveYouFairnessMatter

Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.

Jeff Lindsay

LifeHomeCreativeIdeasMy Life

I think of myself as a film composer.

John Williams

MyselfThinkFilmI ThinkComposer

I play 'Rock Band' with my friends' kids, and they completely beat me senseless with it. I feel like I'm holding them back. I try to play the drums, and I just can't play the drums. I think I need to work on my skills.

Mike McCready

WorkMeThinkFeelFriendsPlay

Everybody wants to say females aren't as funny as men. That's not true. You just don't see as many because it takes a lot to do this occupation.

Loni Love

FunnyMenYouSayTrueSee

Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.

Lord Byron

SeenLikeReadThoseRomances

When I became a father, all that stuff rose up again from the back of my mind. I suddenly realised how uninvolved my father had been in my life.

Juergen Teller

LifeFatherMindRoseMy LifeBack

A single currency entails a fixed interest rate, which means countries can't manage their own currency to suit their own needs. You need a variety of institutions to help nations for which the policies aren't well suited. Europe introduced the euro without providing those structures.

Joseph Stiglitz

HelpYouNeedSingleEuropeWithout

However, I spent most of my time in a Quaker school.

Brian De Palma

TimeSchoolMy TimeMostSpent

I'm anxious about losing anonymity.

Brooke Smith

LosingAnonymityAnxiousAbout

If you have anything really valuable to contribute to the world it will come through the expression of your own personality, that single spark of divinity that sets you off and makes you different from every other living creature.

Bruce Barton

PersonalityWorldSparkYouLiving

Juvenile stuff has always made me laugh. It's what I know.

Brian Posehn

MeLaughKnowAlwaysJuvenileStuff

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