56 Quotes by Stanley Crouch

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.

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.

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

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

People don't really think other people are the same.

When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

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.

Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

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.