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Stanley Crouch
American Critic
Born: Dec 14, 1945
Aesthetic Another Going People Think You
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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 any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA. Stanley Crouch
You Culture CIA Police Crime Parents Politicians Liars Tells Mafia Know Schools Dogs Committed Any Done Going Popular Popular Culture
The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. Stanley Crouch
Dramatically Brought Segregation Redneck Reduced However Nor End Southern Irony Grand Violence
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. Stanley Crouch
Disagree Made Up Listen Stories Us Agree
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. Stanley Crouch
Become Society Our Kind Point Soon Gotten Shocked Any Where Might Less Violence
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 I've already written. Stanley Crouch
Day Every Day Writing Every Thinking Definitely Phrase About Something Written Head Like How Want Now
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. Stanley Crouch
People About General Self Obsession Ideas Talking Narcissistic Opposed Discussion American Going Thing
People don't really think other people are the same. Stanley Crouch
People Think Other Same Really
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. Stanley Crouch
Democracy You Too Much Reading Too Writers Know Deal How Fits Discussion Improvisation Much Means Many
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
Time You Personality Strong School Young Meet Out Enthusiastic Person Goes Young Person Them Might Really Who Waste Waste Of Time Sufficiently
Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class is - those aspects of your identity are not the same as your aesthetic identity. Stanley Crouch
You Class Country Those Sexual Identity Aesthetic Same Region Ethnic Aspects Your
When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present. Stanley Crouch
Music You Director Artistic Want Present Program
Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch
Culture Everything Obsession Naive Popular Inclusion
Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. Stanley Crouch
Living Philosophy Boy Always Boy Scout Up Person Scout Unfortunately Capable
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
Everybody Way Unpredictable More Mysterious Reminded Another Another Way Based Necessarily
Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. Stanley Crouch
Humanity Collective Our Able Comprehend Democratic Accurately Richness
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
Business Dangerous Big Lobbying Market Those Scandals Investigative Put Court Judgments Big Business Line Reporting Often Against Public Products Who Buyers
But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. Stanley Crouch
Myth Solutions Ultimate Itself Much Popular Media Violent

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