It was always a false assumption that white American writers cannot write novels about race unless they're approaching … - Jess Row

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In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

Jess Row

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

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