Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Carter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Stephen Carter.
Last updated on September 17, 2024.
Stephen Carter

Stephen Lisle Carter is an American law professor at Yale University, legal- and social-policy writer, columnist, and best-selling novelist.

There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any claim to blackness other than the biological. They have forgotten their roots.
When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist. — © Stephen Carter
In real life there are indeed black people who have been in the middle class for generations, but in entertainment it's as if they don't exist.
To be black and an intellectual in America is to live in a box. On the box is a label, not of my own choosing.
I think of my novels as entertainments.
So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.
Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.
More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.
I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit and write, not sell.
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.'
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