Stephen Carter Quotes

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

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

I think of my novels as entertainments.

- 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

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

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

- 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

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

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

- Stephen Carter

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

- Stephen Carter