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Jess Row Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don’t have any direct contact with it Picture Quote #1

I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn’t listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together Picture Quote #1

It’s only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is Picture Quote #1

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate Picture Quote #1

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 volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area Picture Quote #1

Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don’t immediately understand Picture Quote #1

I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome Picture Quote #1

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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 meditation Picture Quote #1

There’s an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity Picture Quote #1

The gestures and the swagger and the attitude of black men is imitated everywhere in American culture, but people still find black men intolerable Picture Quote #1

I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all Picture Quote #1

Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that Picture Quote #1

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I’ve given up on pop music and indie rock Picture Quote #1

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I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn’t listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King Picture Quote #1

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Prajna is insight into the world. And a lot of that insight has to do with karma and the way karma affects our lives Picture Quote #1

I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people’s identity crises around gender Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don’t have any direct contact with it (Jess Row Quotes) I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn’t listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King. (Jess Row Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Only when you leave do you appreciate what binds American people and our cultural experience together. (Jess Row Quotes) It’s only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is (Jess Row Quotes) The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate. (Jess Row Quotes) 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 volunteering in food relief. I spent a lot of time throughout the city in poor areas, even though my family lived in a wealthy area (Jess Row Quotes) Narrative stories are nothing but models of karma and causality - how one thing leads to another. And a lot of narrative fiction is about causality that we don’t immediately understand (Jess Row Quotes) I had a lot of expectations placed on me because I was already having some success with my short stories. That was not a good situation to be in. That by itself took a long time to overcome (Jess Row Quotes) 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 meditation (Jess Row Quotes) There’s an enormous difference between normative white masculinity and normative black masculinity (Jess Row Quotes) 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 Quotes) I was raised with opera and very white-bread folk music like The Kingston Trio. That was about as daring as it got. So when I discovered hip-hop as a teenager, at first it made no sense to me at all (Jess Row Quotes) Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that (Jess Row Quotes) Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I’ve given up on pop music and indie rock (Jess Row Quotes) I was relatively isolated from people of color. My parents are too old to be Baby Boomers; they had me later in life. So we didn’t listen to any black music at all in the house, not even Ben E. King (Jess Row Quotes) The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate (Jess Row Quotes) 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 (Jess Row Quotes) 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 Quotes) I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people’s identity crises around gender (Jess Row Quotes)