Jess Row Quotes

• Black culture is very difficult to explain to people who don't have any direct contact with it.

  Jess Row

  People, Black, Culture

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• 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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  Attitude, Men, People

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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.

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  Writing, Race, White

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

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  People, Appreciate, Together

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

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  Karma, World, Way

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• 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.

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  Teenager, White, Hip Hop

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• 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 rap and the beginning of politically conscious rap. I had a very immature, adolescent feeling of, "Wow, I can really connect with these people through the stories they're telling in this music."

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  Rap, Ice, People

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

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  Rocks, Indie Rock, Hip Hop

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• Esa se convirtió en mi estética: una estética realista americana muy chejoviana, en la tradición de Raymond Carver, Richard Ford y Tobias Wolff. La historia perfectible y realista que tenía estos personajes algo elocuentes, mucho silencio, mucho sufrimiento oculto, mucha hombría, mucha bebida, muchos divorcios. A medida que fui escribiendo, me desprendí de muchos de esos elementos.

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  Drinking, Character, Divorce

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• 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 having actual surgery. It's quite common in Thailand and Korea and Japan.

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  Hair, Japan, Korea

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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.

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  Baby, Kings, Later In Life

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• 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.

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  Cities, Volunteer, Parent

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• The truth is that an intellectual life is available to almost anyone, almost anywhere, if they work hard enough and are given some kind of access point.

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  Hard Work, Intellectual, Kind

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• 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.

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  Long, Expectations, Overcoming

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• 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 cynical perspective on what elite institutions - and the privileges they embody - represent in America.

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  Teaching, College, Perspective

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• 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 your own interests, while maintaining a smokescreen of virtuous intent.

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  Technology, Training, Graduates

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• Hong Kong ha sido el lugar donde pervive el recuerdo de la Plaza de Tiananmen; los hongkoneses se han ido comprometiendo cada vez más en su resistencia al gobierno autoritario, y también, como es lógico, se han comprometido a salvaguardar su cultura y su patrimonio como algo distinto y digno de conservar.

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  Memories, Squares, Government

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• 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.

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  Karma, Fiction, Stories

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• El impacto de la música y las formas artísticas negras en la cultura estadounidense es realmente difícil de apreciar.

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  Art, Impact, Appreciate

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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.

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  Buddhism, Practice, Meditation

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• I had observed people whose identity crises around race seemed analogous to other people's identity crises around gender.

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  Race, People, Identity

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• 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.

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  Identity, Debate, Complicated

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• Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

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  Race, Wish, Different

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• 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.

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  Pasado, Hombres, Pensamiento

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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.

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  Men, Position Of Power, Black

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