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, were a beacon, a guiding force. — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
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… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
The prospect of Hillary Clinton not winning the presidency opens up a vast dark hole, an unknown, beyond which it is impossible to know… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
My fiction is based on both my own experience transformed, altered, juggled and changed to suit the demands of composition, character, and plot. If… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
The writer writes about what happened in order to make it make sense, to put it in perspective, to turn it into art; and… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
Socially and politically, we seem to be living in dire times, worse times than in the past. But there were far worse horrors in… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
In the interest of the ethical and moral health of the country, the writer, the poet, the artist, the thinker, must hold a mirror… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
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… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
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… — Clarence Major Copy Share Image
