Quotes by Stanley Crouch

About Stanley Crouch:

Stanley Crouch is an African-American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?
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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.

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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.

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

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You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

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What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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

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Author Bio

  • NameStanley Crouch
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornDecember 14, 1945
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionMusician; Author; Novelist
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; MacArthur Fellows Program