• Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.

    Ishmael Reed: Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.
    Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner