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
humanity able democratic
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
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.
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.
philosophy boys boy-scout
Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.
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.