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Stanley Crouch

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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


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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


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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


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


— Stanley Crouch


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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.


— Stanley Crouch


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


— Stanley Crouch


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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


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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.


— Stanley Crouch


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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


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


— Stanley Crouch


#black #black music #comes #music #out






About Stanley Crouch






Did you know about Stanley Crouch?

While working as a drummer Crouch conducted the booking for an avant-garde jazz series at the club as well as organizing occasional concert events at the Ladies' Fort. In the 1990s he upset many political thinkers when he declared himself a "radical pragmatist". In 2005 he was selected as one of the inaugural fellows by the Fletcher Foundation which awards annual fellowships to people working on issues of race and civil rights.

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