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 More Quotes by Stanley Crouch More Quotes From 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. Stanley Crouch words-of-wisdom african-american stories But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media. Stanley Crouch violent popular-song media Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. Stanley Crouch our-society violence might When people conclude that all is futile, then the absurd becomes the norm. Stanley Crouch norm absurd people Unfortunately, I'm not a person that's always capable of living up to the Boy Scout philosophy. Stanley Crouch boy-scout philosophy boys Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately. Stanley Crouch democratic able humanity What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward. Stanley Crouch renaissance america needs You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation. Stanley Crouch revelations pain facts The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. Stanley Crouch redneck southern violence 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 strong personality school Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the occasions that let people have that first-person experience - or the metaphoric experience that allows them to see human continuity as opposed to total threat, total willingness to do violence. Stanley Crouch violence jobs people People don't really think other people are the same. Stanley Crouch people thinking 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 self talking ideas Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K. Stanley Crouch inclusion obsession culture Volumptuous women look good. Ignorant messages from mass media tell women what size to be, but female qualities-a softness, a soothing capacity that a woman has no matter what size she happens to be-sustain the more humane aspects of civilization. Stanley Crouch media beauty civilization The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value. Stanley Crouch words-of-wisdom african-american heritage 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 dog liars school
