And I can bear anything, even this.
7 September 2012 @ 1:49 PM
"I grew up reading a generation of American and English people like [Saul] Bellow, [John] Updike or [Martin] Amis. Everybody’s neutral unless they’re black — then you hear about it: the black man, the black woman, the black person. Of course, if you happen to be black the world doesn’t look that way to you. I just wanted to try and create perhaps a sense of alienation and otherness in this person, the white reader, to remind them that they are not neutral to other people."
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Zadie Smith, discussing how she never mentions the race of any of the characters in her new novel, NW, unless they are white. (via theraconteurasaurus)

Zadie Smith is SUCH A BADASS.

(via morgan-leigh)

(Source: NPR)

8 months ago via morgan-leigh (originally theraconteurasaurus)
24 August 2012 @ 8:32 PM
"a white male writer is never asked to be a spokesman for anything; he has complete artistic freedom"
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Zadie Smith

You can read the full interview here

(via comelivewithmeangel)

8 months ago via wretchedoftheearth (originally cassavetesclique-deactivated877)
19 August 2012 @ 9:19 PM

stfuconfederates:

9 months ago via stfuconfederates-deactivated201 (originally stfuconfederates-deactivated201)
11 July 2012 @ 5:00 PM

ianbrooks:

Quotable Arts by Evan Robertson / Obvious State

High quality giclée prints available at etsy. Distilling literary quotes from a handful of the masters down to a single graphic representation, Evan captures the raw concept of the sentence and makes it damn purty to look at as well.

(via: fab)

10 months ago via fireblooms (originally ianbrooks)
24 June 2012 @ 12:24 AM

11 months ago