Stanley Crouch Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“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 talking about.”

“Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.”

“When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.”

“People don't really think other people are the same.”

“As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.”

“Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable way to be that's not necessarily based upon contrivances.”

“But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.”

“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 both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.”

“When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.”

“You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out.”