Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouch
Stanley Crouchis an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his 2004 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCritic
Date of Birth14 December 1945
CountryUnited States of America
Stanley Crouch quotes about
people absurd norm
When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
pain facts revelations
You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.
way mysterious unpredictable
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.
enemy bigs leap
Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
dollars lobbying lines
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.
stories made agree
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.
media violent myth
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
believe color vision
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.
our-society violence might
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
redneck southern violence
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
attitude numbers people
But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
men thinking looks
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.
fall mean elements
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.
words-of-wisdom african-american trying
If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.