56 Quotes by Stanley Crouch

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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