"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."

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Source : Ishmael Reed (1995). “Airing Dirty Laundry”, Perseus Books

Ishmael Reed

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“I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.”
“Am I not a fearsome enemy?" "You frighten me primally.”
“The whole world has gone back to something we are genetically engineered to do - communicating through symbols.”
“Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the overwhelming similarities in parents' behaviors. I think this is a hangover from the 1950s re-emergence of father as a parent. He has to be special. The best summary of the evidence on mothers and fathers with their babies is that young children of both sexes, in most circumstances, like both parents equally well. Fathers, like mothers, are good parents first and gender representatives second.”
“Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.”
“Most people try to get rich by being cheap and the price for that is that you live cheap and there is so much money out there; why would you want to live cheap?”
“I look at smoking as a crutch, and as an actor I would like strip away as many crutches as possible.”

Source : "Escape From the '80s" by Allison Glock, GQ, December, 1997.
“One moves swiftly and imperceptibly from a world in which affirmative action can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too weak to a world in which it can`t be ended because its beneficiaries are too strong.”

Source : Christopher Caldwell (2009). “Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West”, p.313, Penguin UK

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