"What we need in America is a renaissance.……" — Stanley Crouch

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

— Stanley Crouch

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36 Quotes by Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch has 36 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by…
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…
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know…
As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy…
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…
Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in…
Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not…
I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex…
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

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I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just… — Paul Auster
What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And… — Billie Joe Armstrong
My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear… — Desi Arnaz
When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he… — Bashar al-Assad
Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and… — Bashar al-Assad
There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful… — Chinua Achebe
God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks… — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon

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