Ishmael Reed Quotes

The Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm.

Ishmael Reed

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• The Thing has stirred in its moorings. The Thing that my Grandfather Harry and his generation of Harrys had thought was nothing but a false alarm.

  

  Ishmael Reed
  • Thought
  • False
  • Alarm