Ishmael Reed

Writer
Director
Actor

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Personal Problems (1980)

Ishmael Reed was born on 22 February 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?, Personal Problems (1980) and Two-Fer (2003). He has been married to Carla Blank since 6 June 1970. They have one child. He was previously married to Priscilla R. Thompson.

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Mommy, What's a Funkadelic?

Writer

Personal Problems

7.1

Writer

1980

Two-Fer

Short

Director

2003

Here Is Something Beautiful (Etc.

Self

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Writer

Personal Problems
7.1
- Writer
- 1980

Director

Actor

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Trailer 1:34

Personal Problems

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Born
- February 22, 1938
- Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
Spouses
Children
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- 1 Interview

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Novelist, poet, and activist.

Quotes
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.