Quotes from Stephen Carter

Teaching civility is an obligation of the family.

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

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

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.

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

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.

I think of my novels as entertainments.

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.'

So much emotion goes into writing fiction.