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Jess Row quotes: Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

Most Americans have a sense of what the blues is. But in Hong Kong, they have no sense of the blues.

Jess Row quotes: It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

It's only when an American steps outside of their own culture that you see how integral it is.

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

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

Jess Row quotes: Country's friggin' dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.

Country's friggin' dying, man, you have to triage the motherfucker.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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: The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

The impact of black music and black art forms on American culture is really difficult to appreciate.

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.

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: I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

I never really had novel-writing instruction like people do in MFA programs.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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