Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Carter

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Stephen Carter.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

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

American - Novelist | Born: October 26, 1954

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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.

Stephen Carter

When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

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.

Stephen Carter

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.

Stephen Carter

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Stephen Carter

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Stephen Carter

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.

Stephen Carter

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Stephen Carter

More than 20 years on, sustained competition, informed customers and the rapid growth of new technology provide the necessary environment for substantial deregulation.

Stephen Carter

I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.

Stephen Carter

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.

Stephen Carter

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.'

Stephen Carter

Top 12 Quotes & Sayings by Stephen Carter

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