Stanley Crouch Quotes - Page 2

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

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  Attitude, Numbers, People

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• 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.

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  Reading, Mean, Democracy

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• When you're artistic director of a program, you present the music you want to present.

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  Directors, Want, Artistic

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• 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.

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  Beauty, Media, Civilization

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

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  Dresses, Trash, Armstrong

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• 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.

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  Strong, School, Personality

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• 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.

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  Art, Player, Ethnicity

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• In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody is saying. Somebody might actually be saying something.

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  America, Might, Patient

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• 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.

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  Self, Talking, Ideas

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• Under popular culture's obsession with a naive inclusion, everything is O.K.

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  Culture, Obsession, Inclusion

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

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  Brotherhood, Enemy, Bigs

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

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  Philosophy, Boys, Boy Scout

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

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  Redneck, Southern, Violence

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