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.

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

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

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.

Hong Kong has been the place where the memory of Tiananmen Square lives on; Hong Kong people have become more and more committed in their resistance to authoritarian government, and also, not surprisingly, committed to safeguarding their culture and heritage as something distinct and worth preserving.

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