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

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When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It'... by Stephen Carter

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

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Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. by Stephen Carter

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

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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.

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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.

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

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I think of my novels as entertainments. by Stephen Carter

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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

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

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

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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.

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So much emotion goes into writing fiction. by Stephen Carter

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

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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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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.

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