Hilton Als Quotes

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• The artist’s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-it’s your brilliant stock-in-trade: remembering, and making something out of it.…
• For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw up on you again and…
• People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.
• Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.
• Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.
• I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.
• People have a copyright on their own life.
• I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.
• There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and…
• I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice because I'm hardest on myself.
• I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.
• One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always referred to the black models…
• Images are really powerful. People fall in love with images, and as a way of falling in love with someone because they're like an image.
• I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and…
• I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually.
• I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.
• Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.

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