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> [It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching it from a very oblique angle.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/it-was-always-a-false-assumption-that-white-american-writers-cannot/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

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## More by Jess Row

> [I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/i-had-a-lot-of-expectations-placed-on-me-because-i-was-already-having/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/most-americans-have-a-sense-of-what-the-blues-is-but-in-hong-kong/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/narrative-stories-are-nothing-but-models-of-karma-and-causality-how/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/you-think-about-every-piece-of-idiomatic-speech-adopted-by-white-men/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/that-became-my-aesthetic-a-very-chekhovian-american-realist-aesthetic/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/the-politics-of-transgender-identity-are-really-complicated-and-the/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [I've spent my entire adult life teaching at colleges of various kinds, all of them very different from Yale, and I have a fairly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/i-ve-spent-my-entire-adult-life-teaching-at-colleges-of-various-kinds/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/hong-kong-has-been-the-place-where-the-memory-of-tiananmen-square/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/for-me-there-s-a-very-clear-parallel-between-the-practice-of-insight/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [There's been a lot of talk about black men and the presence and absence of black men in positions of power in American culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/there-s-been-a-lot-of-talk-about-black-men-and-the-presence-and/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/prajna-is-insight-into-the-world-and-a-lot-of-that-insight-has-to-do/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/the-gestures-and-the-swagger-and-the-attitude-of-black-men-is/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [Yale's endowment became a metaphor for the kind of training it offered its graduates, namely, how to exploit the global marketplace, and technology, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/yale-s-endowment-became-a-metaphor-for-the-kind-of-training-it/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [My parents didn't really restrict my movement, so I got involved in the underground music scene and the activism scene; I was doing some…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/my-parents-didn-t-really-restrict-my-movement-so-i-got-involved-in/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

> [Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jess-row/hip-hop-is-mostly-what-i-listen-to-other-than-jazz-i-ve-given-up-on/)

[Jess Row](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jess-row/)

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