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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
Stanley Crouch
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Stanley Crouch
Age: 74 †
Born: 1945
Born: December 14
Died: 2020
Died: September 16
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Stanley Lawrence Crouch
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In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.
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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.
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What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
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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.
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I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
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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.
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You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.
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Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity.
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When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.
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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.
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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.
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Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.
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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.
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When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.
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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.
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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.
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Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
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