“I’m Very Connected To My Community”: How These Multiracial Celebrities Identify Themselves
- By
Meg Butler
Zadie Smith
“In my conscious life, though, I cannot honestly say I feel proud to be white and ashamed to be black or proud to be black and ashamed to be white. I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part.
I understand how those words got into the racial discourse, but I can’t sign up to them. I’m not proud to be female either. I am not even proud to be human — I only love to be so. As I love to be female and I love to be black and I love that I had a white father.”
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