Quotes by Stanley Crouch - Page 1

People don't really think other people are the same.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
People
Thinking
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Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Music
Black
Black Music
Punk
Punk Rock
Rap
Rocks
Actually
Rock
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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
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Bigs
Brotherhood
Enemy
Leap
Pint
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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Intelligence
Highways
Intellectual
Subway
Also
Highway
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When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
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Absurd
Norm
People
Conclude
Futile
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Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
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Culture
Inclusion
Obsession
Popular
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What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
America
Needs
Renaissance
Backward
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When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Artistic
Directors
Program
Want
Director
Present
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You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.
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Facts
Pain
Revelations
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You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.
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Father
People
Racism
Un
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If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
African American
Trying
Words Of Wisdom
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Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Boy Scout
Boys
Capable
Philosophy
Unfortunately
Scout
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Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Able
Democratic
Humanity
Richness
Accurately
Collective
Comprehend
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Media
Myth
Popular Song
Solutions
Ultimate
Violent
Popular
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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Armstrong
Bottom
Dresses
Exquisite
Trash
Louis
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Might
Our Society
Shocked
Violence
Gotten
Soon
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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Attitude
Numbers
People
Young
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All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones we disagree with and the ones that we agree with.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
African American
Agree
Disagree
Stories
Words Of Wisdom
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The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
African American
Heritage
Words Of Wisdom
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In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
America
Be Patient
Might
Patient
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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.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Men
Looks
Thinking
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Irony
Redneck
Segregation
Southern
Violence
Dramatically
Grand
However
Reduced
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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 necessarily based upon contrivances.
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Another Way
Mysterious
Unpredictable
Way
Necessarily
Reminded
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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.
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Discussion
Ideas
Obsession
Self
Talking
People Ideas American
General
Opposed
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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.
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Phrases
Thinking
Writing
Phrase
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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 and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Democracy
Discussion
Improvisation
Mean
Reading
Writers
Fits
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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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Aesthetic
Class
Country
Identity
Aspects
Ethnic
Sexual
Region
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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.
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Believe
Color
Crosses
Lines
Reasonable
Vision
Minority
Solution
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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.
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Enthusiastic
Personality
School
Strong
Waste
Sufficiently
Waste Of Time
Young Person
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Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.
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Cia
Committed
Crime
Dog
Liars
Mafia
Police
Popular Culture
School
Dogs
Politicians
Popular
Schools
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The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
War
Civilization
Etiquette
Hate
Impulse
Acted
Deal
Develop
High
High Point
Point
Solely
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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.
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Academic
Aesthetic
Elements
Fall
Mean
Notes
Besides
Proposition
Rhythms
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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 court against those who put products on the market that are dangerous to their buyers.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Business
Big Business
Buyers
Court
Dollars
Lobbying
Products
Investigative
Judgments
Reporting
Scandals
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Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization.
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Beauty
Civilization
Media
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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 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.
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Intelligent
Love Story
Odds
People
Understood
Complex
Talented
Extremely
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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.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Jobs
Continuity
First Person
People
Violence
Willingness
Time Experience People
Writers
Opposed
Thinkers
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Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.
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Art
Ethnicity
Player
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The extent of his influence across jazz, across American music, and around the world has such continuing stature that he is one of the few who can easily be mentioned with Stravinsky, Picasso and Joyce. His life was the embodiment of one who moves from rags to riches, from anonymity to internationally imitated innovator. Louis Daniel Armstrong supplied revolutionary language that took on such pervasiveness that it became commonplace, like the light bulb, the airplane, the telephone.
Stanley Crouch / Poet
Airplane
Light
Moving
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