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Stephen Carter Quotes

American - Lawyer | October 26, 1954 -

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

Family Civility Obligation 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.

Live Black America Intellectual Box

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.

Roots Black Skin Forgotten Blackness

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

Growth Technology Competition New

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

Someone You Execution Self-Defense

I think of my novels as entertainments.

Think I Think Novels

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

Family America You Fascinated

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

Work Black Think Hard Audience Only

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.

Myself Think Find Selling Want Hard

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.

Writing Emotion Fiction Much Goes

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.'

Character Black Television Movies Up

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.

Life People Black Class Real Middle

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