"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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Stephen L. Carter

#Thinking Quotes #Black Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Flirt!'s mascara is insane - I don't need false lashes when I wear it.”
“Soccer isn't very social. Plus, if you don't like someone on the other team, you can do something about it.”
“It is almost as if the millennium were arrived, when we shall throw our clocks and watches over the housetop, and remember time and seasons no more. Not to keep hours for a lifetime is... to live forever.”
“While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.”
“The production of souls is more important than the production of tanks.... And therefore I raise my glass to you, writers, the engineers of the human soul.”
“As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps. 1-36); (2) The Book of the Similitudes (chaps. 37-7l)-, (3) The Book of Astronomical Writings (chaps. 72-82); (4) The Book of Dream Visions (chaps. 83-90); and (5) The Book of the Epistle of Enoch (chaps. 91-107).”
“I started radio in 1950 on the Lone Ranger radio program, a dramatic show that emanated from Detroit when I was 18 years old and just beginning college. I did that for a couple of years.”
“The worst thing about Halloween is, of course, candy corn. It's unbelievable to me. Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over.”

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