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.
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.
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.
america might patient
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
america needs renaissance
What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
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.
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.
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.
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.