"If you're going to get in the ring……" — Stanley Crouch
"If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit."
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36 Quotes by Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch has 36 quotes on this site.
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by…
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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
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Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of…
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When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know…
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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…
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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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All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the…
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Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in…
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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…
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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…
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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
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We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.
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Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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A crown, if it hurts us, is not worth wearing.
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Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.
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One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much…
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
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I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So…
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Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.
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To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all…
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To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to…
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