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Ishmael Reed

"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."

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Akiroq Brost

"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."

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"Fairytales are healthy for the children. As they grow up, the magical thinking wears off, but the fairytale-induced creative brain circuits stay forever."

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Akiroq Brost

"I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means."

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Akiroq Brost

"A tree house, to me, is the most royal palace in the world."

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"You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."

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"The world cannot be translated, It can only be dreamed of and touched."

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"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

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"The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies."

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Akiroq Brost

"Just like heaven. Ever'body wants a little piece of lan'. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It's just in their head. They're all the time talkin' about it, but it's jus' in their head."

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"Dream is the realm most people live their life."

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Ishmael Reed
"I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year."

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Ishmael Reed
"Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination."

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Ishmael Reed
"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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Ishmael Reed
"That kind of thing happens to black people every day in this country, and they don't receive that kind of sentence he did, which was to go to prison on the weekends; I think he lectured there-an outside lecturer."

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Ishmael Reed
"Free enterprise is not a bad idea and has produced art."

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Ishmael Reed
"I finally had to go to the American Civil Liberties Union here in northern California to get my reply published to what I considered to be a hatchet job done by Stanley Crouch."

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