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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 L. Carter
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Stephen L. Carter
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 26
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Teasing out the way the world might look through another's eyes is what makes the creative process so fascinating and enjoyable.
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We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.
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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.
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In contemporary American culture, the religions are more and more treated as just passing beliefs - almost as fads - rather than as the fundaments upon which the devout build their lives.
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I think of my novels as entertainments.
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Love is a gift we deliver when we would rather not.
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I think that black fiction authors have to work very hard to avoid being typed as seeking only a black audience.
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So much emotion goes into writing fiction.
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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.
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This trivializing rhetoric runs the subtle but unmistakable message: pray if you like, worship if you must, but whatever you do, do not on any account take your religion seriously.
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We live today in a world in which nobody believes choices should have consequences. But may I tell you the great secret that our culture seeks to deny? You cannot escape the consequences of your choices. Time runs in only one direction.
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Lots of white people think black people are stupid. They are stupid themselves for thinking so, but regulation will not make them smarter.
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There is much depressing evidence that the religious voice is required to stay out of the public square only when it is pressed in a conservative cause.
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True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.
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The very aspect of religions that many of their critics most fear - that the religiously devout, in the name of their faith, take positions that differ from approved state policy - is one of their strengths.
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In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.
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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.
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Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.
Stephen L. Carter
One sees a trend in our political and legal cultures toward treating religious beliefs as arbitrary and unimportant, a trend supported by a rhetoric that implies that there is something wrong with religious devotion.
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