Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, wer…

- Clarence Major

A muse is something that serves a poet well early in his or her career. In later years one writers out of one's own driven inspiration. One learns to…

- Clarence Major

Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in our past. The writer'…

- Clarence Major

The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and art becomes the vehicle on w…

- Clarence Major

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly i…

- Clarence Major

I've never considered soundtracks for what I write. Nor have I considered computer drawing or painting. As a painter, I'm still trying to perfect wha…

- Clarence Major

My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If I…

- Clarence Major

In the interest of the ethical and moral health of the country, the writer, the poet, the artist, the thinker, must hold a mirror up his or her count…

- Clarence Major

The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible to know what would ha…

- Clarence Major