I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.
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…
- Jess Row
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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. - Jess Row
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.
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