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Stanley Crouch quotes

American Critic December 14, 1945

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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
You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. Stanley Crouch
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
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
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
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
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
Stanley Crouch quote: "Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music."
Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch quote: "When you're artistic director of a program, you present the..."
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. Stanley Crouch
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity. Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch quote: "Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of..."
Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch quote: "You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but..."
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. Stanley Crouch
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
Stanley Crouch quote: "Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become..."
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. Stanley Crouch
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision. Stanley Crouch

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