Stanley Crouch Quotes

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
Stanley Crouch

Liars, Parents, Done

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Stanley Crouch

Music, Rock, Black

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Stanley Crouch

Made, Listen, Stories

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
Stanley Crouch

Saying, Enough, America

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.
Stanley Crouch

Writing, Thinking, Head

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
Stanley Crouch

Absurd, Futile, Norm

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
Stanley Crouch

Music, Present, Director

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Stanley Crouch

Democracy, Means, Reading

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.
Stanley Crouch

Business, Put, Big

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Stanley Crouch

Media, Popular, Ultimate

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.
Stanley Crouch

Another, Everybody, Mysterious

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
Stanley Crouch

Enemy, Big, Getting

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
Stanley Crouch

Love, Black, Together

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I don't know any men who don't think about what women look like.
Stanley Crouch

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.
Stanley Crouch

Learning, Human, Mean

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
Stanley Crouch

Subway, Highway

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
Stanley Crouch

Learned, Trash, Dress

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
Stanley Crouch

Humanity, Able, Democratic

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.
Stanley Crouch

Time, Experience, Job

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
Stanley Crouch

Society, Become, Violence

People don't really think other people are the same.
Stanley Crouch

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on with the self, that's the general thing people are talking about.
Stanley Crouch

Self, American, Ideas

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
Stanley Crouch

End, Violence, Redneck

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
Stanley Crouch

War, Hate, High

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
Stanley Crouch

Everything, Culture, Obsession

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Critic

Born: December 14, 1945

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