Ishmael Reed was born on February 22, 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?, Two-Fer (2003) and Personal Problems (1980). He has been married to Carla Blank since June 6, 1970. They have one child. He was previously married to Priscilla R. Thompson.
You have the intelligentsia in New York, who's asleep at brunch. They're obsessed with academic theories, which don't mean a thing to the working-class Black people I live among.