Brave Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Zadie Smith

I cannot believe homosexuality is that much fun. Heterosexuality certainly is not.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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.

— 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,…

— Zadie Smith

Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Zadie Smith