"I grew up in the projects in Buffalo new york and began to understand the power of words at a very early age in high school, found a short story work of fiction I wrote opened doors for me and I've been writing ever since, and all the things that have come to me in terms of prizes and income have been the result of my writing."
If I had not spend a bout five years in New York downtown among the art scene, I would have not been capable of writing the kind of style that I use. My style more akin to the collage or jazz which I play than to traditional linear non-fiction. In writing Barack Obama and Return of Jim Crow Media....Media has not changed its marketing strategy since 1830s with arrival of the penny press, the idea that African Americans and Africans are intellectually inferior, a side show to the news the source of all the country's problem that has not changed but getting worse, appearing there they would meet a black journalist in nation's news room and TV studio , but now they been bought out fire 100s of them, now an all white jury judging black Americans , institutions...
Ishmael Reed
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