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.
Stanley CrouchThe point is, you have an ethnic heritage and you have a human heritage. Your human heritage includes everything of human value.
Stanley CrouchI also wanted to do something that I hadn't really seen in almost any black novels, which was a complex love story in which both people were extremely intelligent and talented and understood a lot of things and were still at odds getting it together.
Stanley CrouchIf you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.
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