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

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate you but we develop an etiquette that allows us to deal with each other because if we acted solely upon our impulse we'd probably go to war.
Stanley Crouch

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

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

What we need in America is a renaissance. We need to go forward by going backward.
Stanley Crouch

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to problems, we are in need of another vision.
Stanley Crouch

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

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

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

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

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