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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.
Stanley Crouch
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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.
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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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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.
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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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If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of popular media.
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Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.
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