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.
Stanley Crouch

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

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

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

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

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.
Stanley Crouch