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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 31 quotes by Stanley Crouch Crouch was born in Los Angeles. During the early 1970s, he moved from California to New York City, where he shared a loft with tenor saxophonist David Murray above an East Village club called the Tin Palace. He was a drummer for Murray and with other musicians of the underground NY 'jazz loft' scene. Also a poet, he released a 1969 album on the Flying Dutchman jazz label entitled Ain't No Ambulances For No Nigguhs Tonight. While working as a... Read full biography of Stanley Crouch → 1 2 3 Ctrl → Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and... → 0 If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway. 0 In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something. 0 The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because... → 0 The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. 0 Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public scandals and multi-million-dollar judgments in court... → 0 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. 0 What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. 0 When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. 0 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... → 0 Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap. 0 Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. 0 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... → 0 1 2 3 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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31 quotes by Stanley Crouch