Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch cultureinclusionnaive Change image and share on social
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. Stanley Crouch accuratelyarrivecollective Change image and share on social
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 dealdemocracydiscussion Change image and share on social
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. Stanley Crouch aestheticaspectclass Change image and share on social
You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism. Stanley Crouch fatherlistenpeople Change image and share on social
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 manwoman Change image and share on social
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. Stanley Crouch artisticdirectormusic Change image and share on social
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. Stanley Crouch convinceenthusiasticflunk Change image and share on social
Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can. Stanley Crouch armstrongbottomdress Change image and share on social
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. Stanley Crouch blackcomplexextremely share on social