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.

Quote by Stanley Crouch

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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...

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody...

In America, we have to learn to be patient enough to figure out what somebody...

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate...

The high point of civilization is that you can hate me and I can hate...

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

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

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

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

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

Our democratic richness arrives when we're able to comprehend our collective humanity accurately.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black...

I also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black...

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

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

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...

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human...

I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human...