Zadie Smith Quote
Because white novelists are not white novelists but simply novelists, and white characters are not white characters but simply human, and criticism of both is not partial or personal but a matter of aesthetics. Such critics will always sound like the neutral universal, and the black women who have championed Their Eyes Were Watching God in the past, and the one doing so now, will seem like black women talking about a black book.
Zadie Smith
Because white novelists are not white novelists but simply novelists, and white characters are not white characters but simply human, and criticism of both is not partial or personal but a matter of aesthetics. Such critics will always sound like the neutral universal, and the black women who have championed Their Eyes Were Watching God in the past, and the one doing so now, will seem like black women talking about a black book.