Hilton Als famous quotes

03-25-2025

Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure.
-- Hilton Als

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

#Girl #New York #Men
I don't know what makes fashion cruel, except I feel nothing but spiritual depletion around it. There's nothing enriching, spiritually.
-- Hilton Als

#Spiritual #Fashion #Feels
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 Als

#Crazy #Thinking #Feels
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 Als

#Falling In Love #Powerful #People
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 Als

#Girl #Fashion #White
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 Als

#Thinking #Racism
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 Als

#Mother #People #Expectations
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 Als

#Crazy #Successful #Men
I don't make a lot of money, but I get to have freedom.
-- Hilton Als
People have a copyright on their own life.
-- Hilton Als

#People #Copyright
I'm a draftsperson. And also, I really respond to love.
-- Hilton Als
Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work.
-- Hilton Als

#Flattering
Recalling, for me, is a great way of living, so not to forget.
-- Hilton Als

#Way #Forget
The artistâ€™s memory is a dangerous, necessary thing. Never disavow what you see and remember-itâ€™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 youâ€™re reinventing; thatâ€™s a rule, perhaps the only one: being cognizant of your source material.
-- Hilton Als

#Memories #Artist #World
People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.
-- Hilton Als

#Long #People #Enough
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 Als

#Baby #White #People
Claudia Rankine'sÂ CitizenÂ 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.Â CitizenÂ is Rankine'sÂ Spoon River Anthology, an epic as large and frightening and beautiful as the country and various emotional states that produced it.
-- Hilton Als

#Beautiful #Country #Song

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