The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black… — Jess Row American culture Copy Share Image
It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very… — Jess Row American writer Copy Share Image
Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender. — Jess Row Crisis Copy Share Image
It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in… — Jess Row Absence Copy Share Image
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got.… — Jess Row Bread Copy Share Image
The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of… — Jess Row Complexes Copy Share Image
Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and… — Jess Row Education Copy Share Image
The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in… — Jess Row Baby Copy Share Image
Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative… — Jess Row Causality Copy Share Image
There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim,… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff.… — Jess Row Aesthetic Copy Share Image
The hip-hop that I really connected with was Public Enemy, KRS-One, Ice Cube, and N.W.A. That late '80s and early '90s era.… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs. — Jess Row Books Copy Share Image
Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together. — Jess Row American people Copy Share Image
The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. — Jess Row American culture Copy Share Image
You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects… — Jess Row Copy Share Image
Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues. — Jess Row Americans Copy Share Image
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. — Jess Row Copy Share Image
My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was… — Jess Row Activism Copy Share Image
“In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago, but I have… — Jess Row Books Copy Share Image
I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was… — Jess Row Expectations Copy Share Image
Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more… — Jess Row Authoritarian government Copy Share Image
For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that… — Jess Row Buddhism Copy Share Image
I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have… — Jess Row Adult life Copy Share Image
