Stephen Carter Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by Stephen Carter In the current circumstances, where 50 percent of the mining revenue is going to the Taliban, and before that it was going to armed groups, by any reasonable definition lapis is a conflict mineral, and that means people should think very hard about buying it. Stephen Carter world When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution. Stephen Carter self-defense someone who you Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. Stephen Carter civility obligation family teaching 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 live own my-own black 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 skin black roots forgotten 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 new competition growth technology I think of my novels as entertainments. Stephen Carter novels i-think think If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family. Stephen Carter you fascinated family america I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience. Stephen Carter think hard black work 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 find myself think want So much emotion goes into writing fiction. Stephen Carter much emotion writing fiction 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 professional movies black character 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 black real life people
