Stanley Crouch Inspirational Quotes (27)

Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy.

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

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.