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Stephen Carter Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: lawyer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 26, 1954

Topics

Work Black Think Hard Audience Only

Music is music; you don't have to put a label on it.

Music You Label Put

I would be copping out if I stayed in the myth of the '60s.

Out Myth Would Stayed

Many times, I get young people asking, 'What do you think about black movies?' And I say, 'What are you talking about? You mean Hollywood movies that have black people in them?' It's gone back to that, and that's not the same thing as a black movie.

Melvin Van Peebles

People Black Think Talking You Back

A lot of fans that recognize me go, 'I kind of hate you,' and I'm all, 'Cool, well, you've just made this sufficiently awkward.'

Hate Me Cool You Go Kind

You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.

Family You Hide Class Race Need

The music I was really listening to in 1968 was James Brown, the great guitar player Jimi Hendrix, and a new group... Sly and the Family Stone, led by Sly Stewart from San Francisco.

Family Music Great Listening Guitar

What people think and believe and plan are all very important, but what they do is the thing that counts most.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

People Believe Think Plan Important

The big question society will have to answer is whether it wants computers thinking like humans.

Society Computers Thinking Will Big

Enter Shikari are a mash-up of everything. I used to really love dubstep when they first came out. They had those amazing basslines, so I loved going to the live shows.

Love Live Amazing Loved First Out

I grew up in Muenchen where my father has been a professor for pharmaceutic chemistry at the university. He had studied chemistry and medicine, having been a research student in Leipzig with Wilhelm Ostwald, the Nobel Laureate 1909. So I became familiar with the life of a scientist in a chemical laboratory quite early.

Life Father Research Medicine Early

New Yorkers think they have everything, all the best art and music. But really L.A. is a better place.

Music Art Best Think Better Place

Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.

Sometimes Orchestra Stomach Going

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