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title: "Zadie Smith, Feel Free"
description: "We were all right about that, too."
date: 2026-08-04
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author: Rachel Pike
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# Zadie Smith, Feel Free

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We were all right about that, too. But then, from the corner, on a sofa [she…] added: “Well that got that habit from us. We always wanted to be seen as right. To be on the right side of an issue. More so than even doing anything. Being right was always the most important thing.”

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