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

Quote by Stanley Crouch

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Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class...

Your ethnic or sexual identity, what region of the country you're from, what your class...

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you...

When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you...

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap.

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on...

The discussion of ideas as opposed to the American narcissistic obsession with what's going on...

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

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

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

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

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable...

Everybody has to be reminded that there's another way to be. Another more mysterious, unpredictable...

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the...

Our job as writers and thinkers in the time is how to bring about the...

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police...

Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police...

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but...

You can meet a young person who goes to school and is really enthusiastic, but...

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I...

Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I...

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public...

Big business, for all its lobbying, is often put in line by investigative reporting, public...

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones...

All of us are made up of the stories that we listen to, the ones...

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I...

I don't know any women who don't think about what they look like, and I...

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much...

As you know from reading many of these Negro writers, we don't deal too much...

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

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

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

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

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

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

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of...

But the myth of violent solutions as the ultimate solutions maintains itself in much of...

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less...

Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less...