Asking why rappers always talk about their stuff is like asking why Milton is forever listing the attributes of heavenly armies. Because boasting is a formal condition of the epic form. And those taught that they deserve nothing rightly enjoy it when they succeed in terms the culture understands.
Zadie SmithWriting is my way of expressing - and thereby eliminating - all the various ways we can be wrong-headed.
Zadie SmithIn the end, your past is not my past and your truth is not my truth and your solution - is not my solution.
Zadie Smith