"I think that if you feel imaginatively towards……" — Hilton Als
"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 that's crazy."
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17 Quotes by Hilton Als
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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…
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For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don't like, babies who throw…
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People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.
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Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.
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Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.
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I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.
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People have a copyright on their own life.
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I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.
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There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can…
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I was so well loved by my mother that if people have any expectations of me I really don't notice…
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I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is…
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One of the things I noticed when I worked at Vibe was that backstage at a fashion show, they always…
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I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.
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If you're a baker, making bread, you're a baker. If you make the best bread in the world, you're not…
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