White tiger zadie smith5/23/2023 ![]() As I saw it, even my strongest feelings and convictions might easily be otherwise, had I been the child of the next family down the hall, or the child of another century, another country, another God. I could never shake the suspicion that everything about me was the consequence of a series of improbable accidents-not least of which was the 400 trillion–to-one accident of my birth. Other people seemed to feel strongly about themselves, to know exactly who they were. Of having a lot of contradictory voices knocking around my head. I’ve always been aware of being an inconsistent personality. ![]() An exhibition of Yiadom-Boakye’s work, curated by Hilton Als, is on view at the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 12–December 15, 2019. Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: To Reason with Heathen at Harvest, 2017. ![]()
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