56 Quotes by Stanley Crouch

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

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

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

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.

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

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.

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

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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.