Quotes by Hilton Als

Hilton Als

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

Challenges

Listening

Want

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.

Beautiful

Country

Song

Every time I put a collection together I’d scrap it because there was no “meaning,” until I wrote about the two black men – friends – in the beginning of the book. So much of their experience was ABOUT trying to find friends in the authors/artists I wrote about – subjects that were/are a source of comfort, somehow, since none of them “fit,” either

Artist

Book

Men

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.

Baby

People

White

Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn’t been your experience. It’s amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don’t “get,” whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.

People

Sadness

Twenties

I don’t know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There’s nothing enriching, spiritually.

Fashion

Feels

Spiritual

I don’t make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

Lots Of Money

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

Girl

Men

New York

I had to re-write “Philosophy” a lot. It was more obscure than what’s in the book now, even! Some things I had to go back to and excise my former self, who was even more dense. I think you should teach whatever you want, Brian! That’s the point of books like White Girls, to help free our thoughts!

Book

Girl

Philosophy

I really don’t think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That’s the writer’s job!

Book

Jobs

Thinking

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Art

Artist

Baby

Beautiful

Black And White

Book

Challenges

Country

Crazy

Enough

Expectations

Falling In Love

Fashion

Feels

Flattering

Forget

Form

Girl

Imagination

Inspiration

Jobs

Knows

Listening

Long

Lots Of Money

Mean

Memories

Men

Mother

Musical

Names

New Orleans

New York

Painting

People

Philosophy

Powerful

Pure

Racism

Reading

Sadness

Shocking

Sometimes

Song

Spiritual

Successful

Teaching

Thinking

Twenties

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Quotes by Hilton Als

Hilton Als

Challenging is good, like good conversation, yes? Who wants to have dinner with the same old easy listening music sounding friends all the time?

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.

I don’t know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There’s nothing enriching, spiritually.

I don’t make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.

I feel like there are so few girls in New York like that anymore, who are not focused on getting a man with money.

I really don’t think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That’s the writer’s job!

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