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You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

Zadie Smith

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

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About Zadie Smith

Zadie Smith FRSL (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, White Teeth (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the Creative Writing faculty of New York University in September 2010.