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• During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shaw’s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'

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  Hombres, Hombre Blanco, Negro

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• No one says a novel has to be one thing. It can be anything it wants to be, a vaudeville show, the six o’clock news, the mumblings of wild men saddled by demons.

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  Writing, Men, News

  Ishmael Reed (1995). “Yellow Back Radio Broke-Down”

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• One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.

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  Book, Reading, Joy

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

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• I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.

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  Medical Problems, Racism, Suffering

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• Escribir poesía es el duro trabajo manual de la imaginación.

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  Writing, Imagination, Poetry

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

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• 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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  Careers, Perfect, Black

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

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• I wasn't part of any sixties movement. I'm skeptical of movements. I'm part of the times that I'm in.

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  Movement, Skeptical, Sixty

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• History is the story of warfare between secret societies.

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  Secret, Warfare, Stories

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• In Haitian mythology there is the figure Ghede, who in West Africa, is Iku, whose role is to show "each man his devil." He's represented by a figure wearing a top hat and smoking a cigar. That's my gig.

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  Men, Smoking, Devil

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• 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.

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  Discipline, Honor, Racist

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• American cultural institutions seem so bent on preserving the values of "Western civilization," the mythical "Whitetown," that welearn about one another's cultures the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

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  Education, Sex, Race

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• El tratamiento de la cultura africana y afroamericana en nuestra educación no difería de su tratamiento en las películas de Tarzán.

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  Education, Race, African American

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

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• A mediados del próximo siglo, cuando el establishment literario refleje la composición multicultural de este país y no esté dominado por asimilacionistas de gustos, orígenes y pretensiones similares, Langston Hughes será para el siglo XX lo que Walt Whitman fue para el XIX.

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  Country, Makeup, Taste

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• What was once dormant is now a Creeping Thing

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  Dormant

  Ishmael Reed (2013). “Mumbo Jumbo: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.

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  Writing, Justice, Diversity

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• Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.

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  Writing, Men, Fleeting

  Ishmael Reed (1978). “Shrovetide in old New Orleans”, Doubleday Books

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• Muchas de las grandes obras de arte proceden de la experiencia masculina afroamericana. Los hombres negros son genios, y muchas veces su desesperación, su posición de parias, les lleva a una gran originalidad.

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  Art, Men, Black

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• We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets.

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  Love, Sex, Culture

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• Native Americans were driven off their land. Lincoln even took part in the Black Hawk campaign against the Native Americans in Illinois. While they were being exterminated and driven off their land, Whites were collecting assets.

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  Native American, Illinois, Land

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Given all of the anti-Muslim propaganda that's being disseminated by The American Nazi media, you have to be careful. It can stress you out.

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  Stress, Media, Propaganda

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• No sólo crecimos con el Be-Bop, sino que el Be-Bop nos educó. Para mi generación, el Be-Bop se encendió como una bombilla que se enciende detrás de los ojos. Para nosotros, no era sólo un movimiento intelectual, sino una forma de vida. Caminábamos, vestíamos y rapeábamos Be-Bop.

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  Music, Eye, Light

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

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• How does the [New York] Times treat White pathology? They reported an epidemic of heroin addiction in the Philadelphia suburbs. which included emergency admissions and overdoses; these White people in the suburbs were doing heroin like it was going out of style. I counted the words: the article consisted of 200 words. "Heroin Epidemic" in the back section. Out here in California, the typical drug addict is a housewife or suburban White woman.

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  New York, Epidemics, California

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I think I have a pugnacious style. My style is not pretty. I don't use words like "amber" or "opaque."

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  Thinking, Style, Amber

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's laid on us by the powers that be. These include White ethnic intellectuals- people who know their roots- as well as Native American, Asian American, Hispanic and Black intellectuals. These are thirty, forty-year associations with some of the best minds around. Minds that are ignored by the media.

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  Native American, Media, Years

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Pocos ciudadanos blancos conocen a los negros aparte de los que proyectan los medios de comunicación y el llamado sistema educativo, que no es más que un sistema de premios y castigos basado en la capacidad de uno para jurar lealtad a la cultura anglosajona. Los medios de comunicación y el "sistema educativo" son las principales fuentes de racismo en Estados Unidos.

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  Loyalty, Education, White

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