He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.
Zadie SmithThe roots of rap are originally ghetto-ised or extremely working class. So when you're an artist who's making something which isn't how its mainstream appearance should be, there's always these strange questions of authenticity and what you have to do to be 'real' as a rapper.
Zadie SmithI don't ask myself what did I live for, said Carlene strongly. That is a man's question. I ask whom did I live for.
Zadie SmithEnglish fiction was something I loved growing up, and it changed my life - it changed the trajectory of my life.
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