Zadie Smith Quotes

He was bookish, she was not; he was theoretical, she political. She called a rose a rose. He called it an accumulation of cultural and biological constructions circulating around the mutually attracting binary poles of nature/artifice.

Zadie Smith

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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

Malcolm Gladwell
- World
- Money
- Will
I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

Larry Wilmore
- Up
- World
- Work
When I was between 2 and 3 years old, I got to know my first non-human being. The non-human was a cocker spaniel named Baba. We weren't friends, Baba and I, nor enemies. He wasn't my dog. He belonged to the people my mother worked for, and he lived in the house with them and us.

Octavia E. Butler
- People
- Friends
- Mother
I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

Aaron Neville
- Up
- Remember
- Years
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

Florence Ellinwood Allen
- Freedom
- Whether
- Rests
There's times when you're having dinner with a good friend and you're in the middle of a conversation and somebody comes up and cuts you off. Can you sign this? Can I take a picture with you? I'm adjusting to all the attention.

Verne Troyer
- Up
- Good
- Attention