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.
Stephen L. CarterIn 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 L. CarterOne 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.
Stephen L. CarterI 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 L. Carter