Stanley Crouch

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— 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…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

“It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others,…

— Stanley Crouch

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those…

— Stanley Crouch

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— 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…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— 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…

— Stanley Crouch

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that…

— Stanley Crouch

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…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them…

— Stanley Crouch

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— 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…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity…

— Stanley Crouch

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

— Stanley Crouch