List of Reed College People

This page lists notable alumni and faculty of Reed College.


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    Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935)

    Lastly, his tomb
    Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
    And none shall speak his name.
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    The Afrocentric exploration of the black past only scratches the surface. A full examination of the ancestry of those who are referred to in the newspapers as blacks and African Americans must include Europe and Native America.
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

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    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    ...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the “tough guy;” today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.
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