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> [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 country and say, look, this is who we are, this is how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/in-the-interest-of-the-ethical-and-moral-health-of-the-country-the/)

[Clarence Major](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/clarence-major/)

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## More by 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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/i-ve-never-considered-soundtracks-for-what-i-write-nor-have-i/)

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> [The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible to know…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/the-prospect-of-hillary-clinton-not-winning-the-presidency-opens-up-a/)

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> [My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/my-fiction-is-based-on-both-my-own-experience-transformed-altered/)

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> [The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/the-writer-writes-about-what-happened-in-order-to-make-it-make-sense/)

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> [Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/life-can-be-unsettling-writers-have-always-gravitated-to-conflict/)

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> [Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/socially-and-politically-we-seem-to-be-living-in-dire-times-worse/)

[Clarence Major](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/in-the-interest-of-the-ethical-and-moral-health-of-the-country-the/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/a-muse-is-something-that-serves-a-poet-well-early-in-his-or-her/)

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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/clarence-major/despite-the-obstacles-of-race-and-class-i-was-always-taught-that-i/)

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