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.

— Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch Quotes

Our democratic richness arrives when we’re able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

— Stanley Crouch

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.

— Stanley Crouch

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

— Stanley Crouch

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.

— Stanley Crouch

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

— Stanley Crouch

If you’re going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

— Stanley Crouch

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

— Stanley Crouch

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

— Stanley Crouch

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.

— Stanley Crouch

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.

— Stanley Crouch

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.

— Stanley Crouch

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.

— Stanley Crouch

About Stories

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.

— Stanley Crouch

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

— Stanley Crouch

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

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.

— Stanley Crouch

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

— Stanley Crouch

If there’s an intellectual highway, there’s also an intellectual subway.

— Stanley Crouch

Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he’s not a trash can.

— Stanley Crouch

We cannot allow our public schools to remain in such bad shape and then wonder why we are having so many social problems.

— Stanley Crouch

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