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We can never forget that our fate as Americans is, finally, collective, and that we fail our mission as a democratic nation whenever we submit to any sort of segregation that would remake the rules and distort the truth in the interest of creating or satisfying a constituency unwilling to assert the tragic optimism so intrinsic to the blues and to the Constitution.

Stanley Crouch

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

Stanley Crouch

Jazz musicians symbolize... a freedom from the taste-making of mass media and an embracing of a vision that has much more to do with aesthetic satisfaction than the gold-rush culture of popular entertainment, where one takes the clichés of adolescent narcissism into the side of the mountain rather than a pickaxe, some pans, and a burro.

Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch

Stanley Crouch

Born: December 14, 1945

Died: September 16, 2020 (aged 74)

Bio: Stanley Lawrence Crouch was an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his 2004 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?

Known for:

Kansas City Lightning (2007)
Considering Genius (2006)
The artificial white man (2004)
Don't the Moon Look Lonesome (2000)

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