Reed

Famous quotes containing the word reed:

“And pray for me also under the draughty stair.
As we get older we do not get any younger.

And pray for Kharma under the holy mountain.”
—Henry Reed (1914–1986)

“At this time in American history, we are like ghosts talking gibberish through different dimensions, and stupid men do not make good make good mediums.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)

“If the British prose style is Churchillian, America is the tobacco auctioneer, the barker; Runyon, Lardner, W.W., the traveling salesman who can sell the world the Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you and convince you that tomatoes grow at the South Pole.”
—Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)