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
american-critic popular
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
act american-critic bottom obsession
There's this obsession with the bottom being the best. So that's why, to get to the top, they want to act like they're at the bottom.
dog liars school
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.
words-of-wisdom african-american heritage
The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
beauty media civilization
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.
culture obsession inclusion
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
self talking ideas
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.
writing thinking want
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.
thinking people
People don't really think other people are the same.
jobs people violence
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.
strong school personality
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.
america needs renaissance
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
humanity able democratic
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
philosophy boys boy-scout
Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.