"A black boxer's career is the perfect metaphor for the career of a black male. Every day is like being in the gym, sparring with impersonal opponents as one faces the rudeness and hostility that a black male must confront in the United States, where he is the object of both fear and fascination."

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Source : Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

Ishmael Reed

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“Mythology is a vast body of knowledge that has not been tapped.”
“The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
“I don't wear the see-through shirts or anything too glittery. I come from that '90s school of rap. Fitted caps, because I got a big head, so snapbacks don't fit me right.”

Source : "The GQ+A: Meek Mill on Kendrick Lamar, Twitter Hashtags, and Being Rich Forever". Interview with Nate Erickson, www.gq.com. December 20, 2013.
“You wanna know my occupation? I get paid to rock the nation. I go to work.”

Source : Song: I Go to Work
“And I'll never forget the first time I took the possibility to project sound every day for six or seven hours with special devices which were built for me.”
“Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection.”
“Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless.”
“The one thing I've discovered about social media is that people love answering questions. In fact, it sometimes feels like at any given moment, millions of people are online who have been waiting for exactly the question you fire off.”

Source : "Double-You Double-You One" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 2, 201.

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