Quotes by Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

Art

Ethnicity

Player

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.

African American

Stories

Words Of Wisdom

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don’t deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

Democracy

Mean

Reading

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.

Business

Dollars

Lobbying

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

Media

Popular Song

Violent

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

Attitude

Numbers

People

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.

Mysterious

Unpredictable

Way

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

Bigs

Brotherhood

Enemy

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.

Intelligent

Odds

People

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.

Looks

Men

Thinking

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Armstrong

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Beauty

Believe

Bigs

Boy Scout

Boys

Brotherhood

Business

Civilization

Class

Color

Country

Culture

Democracy

Democratic

Directors

Dog

Dollars

Dresses

Elements

Enemy

Ethnicity

Facts

Fall

Father

Hate

Heritage

Humanity

Ideas

Identity

Inclusion

Intellectual

Intelligence

Intelligent

Jobs

Liars

Light

Lobbying

Looks

Mean

Media

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Quotes by Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch

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.

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don’t deal too much with the discussion of democracy and what it means and how improvisation fits in all that.

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.

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

But there are a number of attitudes that should not be emotionally or psychologically ingested by young people.

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.

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

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.

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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