If there's an intellectual highway, there's also an intellectual subway.

- Stanley Crouch

Rap actually comes out of punk rock, not black music.

- 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 …

- Stanley Crouch

You must be willing to accept the fact that pain is a part of the process of revelation.

- 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…

- 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

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

- 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