Armstrong Quote by 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 in which…

— 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 people are…

— 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, and cynicism…

— 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…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— 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 experience -…

— 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 about what…

— Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch