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