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

Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together.

- Jess Row

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

- Jess Row

There's an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity.

- 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.

- 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…

- 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.

- 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.

- Jess Row