Stephen Carter

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#family #obligation #teaching

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

— Stephen Carter

#fleeing #self-defense #shoot #someone #who

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

#always #backgrounds #black #character #even

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

#even #find #hard #i #myself

I think of my novels as entertainments. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#i #i think #novels #think

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

— Stephen Carter

#authors #avoid #being #black #fiction

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

— Stephen Carter

#family #fascinated #you

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 #class #entertainment #exist #generations

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

#customers #deregulation #environment #growth #informed

So much emotion goes into writing fiction. ↗

— Stephen Carter

#fiction #goes #into #much #writing