Stanley Crouch Quotes

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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.
• But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
• Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
• Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
• 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…
• 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…
• But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
• 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.
• 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…
• 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.
• 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…
• Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
• 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…
• 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…
• In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
• If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
• Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
• The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few…
• If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
• The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

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