Stanley Crouch People Quotations

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

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.

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

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

You'd never know that listening to people in the UN but tribalism is the father of racism.

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.