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Stanley Crouch Biography

Stanley Lawrence Crouch (born December 14, 1945) is an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?

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Louis Armstrong, who learned to be in exquisite dress, came from the bottom, and he's not a trash can.

Armstrong, Bottom, Dresses, Exquisite, Trash

The point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.

African American, Ethnic, Everything, Heritage, Value, Words Of Wisdom

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

Boy, Boy Scout, Boys, Capable, Person, Philosophy

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.

Contrivances, Everybody, Mysterious, Unpredictable, Way

Above all else, [Benny Goodman] was a great player, one of the greatest American music has produced. He brought his absolute talent and his invincible love of music to the fore every time he played. There are many other things connected to society and ethnicity that are often mentioned in a discussion of Benny Goodman but all of them are connected to his overwhelming affection for the art of the music and the fairness it should be allowed to express.

Art, Brought, Ethnicity, Music, Player, Society

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.

Business, Dollars, Lobbying, Judgments, Market

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.

Day, Like, Phrases, Thinking, Writing, Written

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.

Know, Like, Looks, Men, Think, Thinking

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

Absurd, Futile, Norm, People

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 something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

Elements, Fall, Mean, Place, Rhythms

If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

Highway, Highways, Intellectual, Subway

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Big, Bigs, Brotherhood, Enemy, Leap, Pint

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

Media, Myth, Popular, Popular Song, Ultimate, Violent

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.

Crime, Culture, Dog, Liars, School, Schools

People don't really think other people are the same.

People, Same, Think, Thinking

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.

Beauty, Civilization, Humane, Matter, Media, Woman

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

African American, Belt, Hit, Ring, Trying, Words Of Wisdom

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

Become, Gotten, Might, Our Society, Point, Violence

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

Fact, Facts, Pain, Part, Revelations

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.

African American, Words Of Wisdom, Stories, Listen, Disagree

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