Hilton Als quotes
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“Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : Interview with Lily Tomlin, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2015.
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“I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.”
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“I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“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.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“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.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“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 as "black girls." I thought, "They never say 'white girls.'.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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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 even more shocking.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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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 because I'm hardest on myself.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“There were so few black men who were successful and who successfully conveyed black male fear - how America can make you feel crazy, and how America can create interesting levels of contradiction.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.”
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“People have a copyright on their own life.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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“Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "Hilton Als, Constructing Genre". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.
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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. Artists remember the world as it is, first, because you have to know what it is you’re reinventing; that’s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.”
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“People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : "A Pryor Love". www.newyorker.com. September 13, 1999.
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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 up on you again and again, but whom you cannot punish, because they're babies.”
-- Hilton AlsSource : Hilton Als (2013). “White Girls”, p.224, McSweeney's
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“Claudia Rankine's Citizen comes at you like doom. It's the best note in the wrong song that is America. Its various realities-'mistaken' identity, social racism, the whole fabric of urban and suburban life-are almost too much to bear, but you bear them, because it's the truth. Citizen is Rankine's Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.”
-- Hilton Als
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