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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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