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Zadie Smith _ Swing Time
Ahol én nélkülözést, igazságtalanságot, szegénységet láttam, ott Granger egyszerűséget, az anyagiasság hiányát, a közösségi élet szépségét vette észre - ami gyökeres ellentéte volt az amerikai létformának, amelyben ő felnőtt. Ahol én többnejűséget, nőgyűlöletet, anyátlan gyermekeket láttam {anyám gyermekkori szigetét, csak még hangsúlyosabban, hagyományokkal megerősítve}, ott ő emlékezett a hatodik emeleti apró garzonra, amelyben kettesben élt egy depressziós anyával, a magányra, az élelmiszerjegyekre, a céltalanságra, a közvetlenül a lakásuk előtt futó veszélyes utcákra, és őszinte könnyeket hullatva jelentette ki, mennyivel boldogabb lett volna, ha nem egy, hanem tizenöt nő neveli fel.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
Now, how do the young prepare to meet the old? The same way the old prepare to meet the young: with a little condescension; with low expectation of the other's rationality; with the knowledge that the other will find what they say hard to understand, that it will go beyond them {not so much over the head as between the legs}; and with the feeling that they must arrive with something the other will like, something suitable. Like Garibaldi biscuits.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
Clara was a teenage girl like any other; the object of her passion was only an accessory to the passion itself, a passion that through its long suppression was now asserting itself with volcanic necessity.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
She wore her sexuality with an older woman's ease, and not {as with most of the girls Archie had run with in the past} like an awkward purse, never knowing how to hold it, where to hang it, or when to just put it down.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
Generally, women can't do this, but men retain the ancient ability to leave a family and a past. They just unhook themselves, like removing a fake beard, and skulk discreetly back into society, changed men.
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Zadie Smith _ White Teeth
He was no great believer in destiny, Archie, but on reflection it did seem that a special effort of predestination had ensured his life had been picked out for him like a company Christmas present-early, and the same as everyone else's."
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
It's not just a matter of free books. A library is a different kind of social reality {of the three-dimensional kind}, which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
Peele gets to the core of what contemporary entitlement looks like-concern with one's personal rights combined with non-interest in one's duties
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
It's only recently that I had any idea that how a person felt about libraries-not schools or hospitals, libraries-could even represent an ideological split. I thought a library was one of the few sites where the urge to conserve and the desire to improve-twin poles of our political mind-were easily and naturally united.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
has never been hard for me to pay my taxes because I understand it to be the repaying of a large, in fact, an almost incalculable, debt.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
But equally you can't fight for a freedom you've forgotten how to identify.
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Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays
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 possibilities. The lesson is quite clear. My body obeys me. My dancers obey me. Now you will obey me.
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