Zadie Smith Quotes

I felt I was losing track of my physical location, rising above my body, viewing my life from a very distant point, hovering over it.

I got something to tell you, said Keisha Blake, disguising her voice with her voice.

I saw I was lucky to have Lamin: while he engaged in his favorite activity—intense, whispered financial negotiation, with several parties at once—I was free to wander over to the cannon, to sit astrid...

I thought it odd that my father should travel eight miles to Lambert's for comfort when Lambert seemed already to have suffered the kind of abandonment my father feared so badly

I was completely unreachable, for the first time in years. It gave me an unexpected but not unpleasant sense of stillness, of being outside of time: it reminded me somehow of childhood.

I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

I'm serious. I don't know how you work like that. My school shit is better organized, and I'm not in the business of World Domination.

In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship an Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that crosses class and color, a friendship that takes as its basis phys...

In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that crosses class and color, a friendship that takes as its basis phy...

It just goes to show,’ said Alsana, revealing her English tongue, you go back and back and back and it’s still easier to find the correct Hoover bag than to find one pure person, one pure faith, on th...

It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.

It was nostalgia for an era and a culture that had meant nothing to me in the first place, and perhaps because of this I was, in the eyes of my colleagues, cool, by virtue of not being like them.

It's easy to confuse a woman for a philosophy

It’s a part of what art is here to imagine for us and with us. (I’m a sentimental humanist: I believe art is here to help, even if the help is painful—especially then.)

It’s the fear of being mistaken for Joyce that has always ensured that I ignore the box marked biracial and tick the box marked black on any questionnaire I fill out, and call myself unequivocally a b...

Janet Jackson kicked off this curious phenomenon, Madonna continued it, Beyoncé is its apex. Here dancing is intended as a demonstration of the female will, a concrete articulation of its reach and po...

Jeder Augenblick geschieht zweifach: innen und außen, und es sind zwei unterschiedliche Geschichten.

Lanier is interested in the ways in which people reduce themselves in order to make a computer’s description of them appear more accurate. Information systems, he writes, need to have information in o...

Leah watches Natalie stride over to her beautiful kitchen with her beautiful child. Everything behind those French doors is full and meaningful. The gestures, the glances, the conversations that can't...

Marilyn Monroe was pretty far along that curve, as close as one can come to dancing while still walking. In her classic 1953 movie Niagara she takes a legendary walk away from the camera, hips swingin...