Stanley Crouch Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.”

“Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.”

“Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.”

“Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.”

“Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written.”

“Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.”

“You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.”

“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 look like.”

“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 mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.”

“Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence.”