Reed

Famous quotes containing the word reed:

    And the frigid burnings of purgatory will not be touched
    By any emollient.
    —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)

    In the middle of the next century, when the literary establishment will reflect the multicultural makeup of this country and not be dominated by assimiliationists with similar tastes, from similar backgrounds, and of similar pretensions, Langston Hughes will be to the twentieth century what Walt Whitman was to the nineteenth.
    —Ishmael Reed (b. 1938)