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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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. View quote
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Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music. View quote
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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. View quote
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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap. View quote
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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)
People don't really think other people are the same. View quote
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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. View quote
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When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. (Stanley Crouch)
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. View quote
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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. View quote
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Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. View quote
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You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. View quote
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Stanley Crouch

Occupation: American Critic
Born: December 14, 1945
Died: September 16, 2020
Quotes count: 32