You think about every piece of idiomatic speech adopted by white men over the past ten or twenty years; virtually all of it comes from hip-hop.
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. The beginning of gangster… - Jess Row
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. The beginning of gangster…
- Jess Row
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perf… - Jess Row
That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perf…
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity. - Jess Row
There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.
Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together. - Jess Row
Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock. - Jess Row
Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.
Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives. - 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.
Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without hav… - Jess Row
Because of all the cosmetic services like skin whitening and hair bleaching, there is a lot that people can do to change their appearance without hav…
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. - 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.
The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable. - 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.
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