"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of……" — Stanley Crouch
"Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity."
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36 Quotes by Stanley Crouch
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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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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
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