You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but if a sufficiently strong personality convinces them that this is a waste of time, that person might flunk out. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
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 Read Quote
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
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. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
Our democratic richness arrives when we’re able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
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. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
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. Stanley Crouch Read Quote
