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title: "2 Disgust Quotes By Zadie Smith"
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> [“Right. I look fine. Except I don't,' said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust. To that end she had tried…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/right-i-look-fine-except-i-don-t-said-zora-tugging-sadly-at-her-man-s/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1fd/zadie-smith-584_beauty_right-i-look-fine-except-i-don-t-said-zo_394757.png)

> [It reminds me that those of us who turn in disgust from what we consider an overinflated liberal-bourgeois sense of self should be careful what we wish for: our denuded networked selves don't look more free, they just look more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/it-reminds-me-that-those-of-us-who-turn-in-disgust-from-what-we/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

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## More by Zadie Smith

> [- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/you-look-fine-right-i-look-fine-except-i-don-t-said-zora-tugging/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great men and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/pretty-girls-lie-at-the-centre-of-straight-culture-dyke-culture-fag/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [“I have known many true connoisseurs, with excellent tastes that range across the humanities and the culinary arts--and they never fail to have a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-have-known-many-true-connoisseurs-with-excellent-tastes-that-range/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-cannot-believe-homosexuality-is-that-much-fun-heterosexuality/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [“Either everything is sacred or nothing is. And if he starts burning other people’s things, then he loses something sacred also. Everyone gets what’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/either-everything-is-sacred-or-nothing-is-and-if-he-starts-burning/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [My feeling is, having lived in different classes, that people want equality of opportunity... that's the thing that makes me despair: the idea that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/my-feeling-is-having-lived-in-different-classes-that-people-want/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-don-t-keep-any-copies-of-my-books-in-the-house-they-go-to-my-mum-s/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [But it makes an immigrant laugh to hear the fears of the nationalist, scared of infection, penetration, miscegenation, when this is small fry, peanuts,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/but-it-makes-an-immigrant-laugh-to-hear-the-fears-of-the-nationalist/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/oh-i-know-that-you-know-me-baby-i-cannot-be-broken-takes-a-giant-to/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [“In short, it was precisely the kind of friendship and Englishman makes on holiday, that he can make only on holiday. A friendship that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/in-short-it-was-precisely-the-kind-of-friendship-and-englishman-makes/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/i-suppose-i-often-think-of-my-writing-as-quite-impersonal-but-it/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [“Some of us are happy with our African hair, thank you very much. I don't want some poor Indian girl's hair. And I wish…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/some-of-us-are-happy-with-our-african-hair-thank-you-very-much-i-don/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/you-can-t-state-difference-and-also-state-equality-we-have-to-state/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [“(Unlike many others around this time, Joyce felt no shame about using the term 'middle class'. In the Chalfen lexicon the middle classes were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/unlike-many-others-around-this-time-joyce-felt-no-shame-about-using/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

> [A lot of women, when they're young, feel they have very good friends, and find later on that friendship is complicated. It's easy to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/zadie-smith/a-lot-of-women-when-they-re-young-feel-they-have-very-good-friends/)

[Zadie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/zadie-smith/)

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