Quotes from Stanley Crouch

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 if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.

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.

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.

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

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.

When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm.

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.

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.

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

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

The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence.

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

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.

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