Stanley Crouch

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

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence.
Stanley Crouch

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
Stanley Crouch

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
Stanley Crouch

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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Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.
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All the people who want to be anti-West, they always take Qaddafi's side, as though they wouldn't mind being on one of those planes when it's blown up.
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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
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If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
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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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But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.
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