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Hilton Als

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Nothing is more flattering for a writer than when someone knows your work. - Hilton Als
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I have not seen 'The Lion King.' I don't do black folklore. And I'm black. - Hilton Als
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Our wishes are our most reliable mirror, and the black-and-white movies I'm most drawn to are about artists who suffer because art is a noble thing; suffering is such a small price to pay for the imagination. - Hilton Als
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I think what we're attracted to on the page is something that is very difficult to do in life, which is to examine in what seems like a moment. To examine what we can't do in life very well, which is to be as present and accountable to what an experience is. That's why life is short and art is very long. - Hilton Als
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If you have a word of encouragement, you can do anything. - Hilton Als
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Eminem was someone that I discovered I liked, largely because of his relationship to language and to his mother. - Hilton Als
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If I feel like I haven't really tapped into the essence of the story when I do an assignment, I may revisit it on my own, and that's when I feel freer to add my imagination. But 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
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I didn't like '12 Years a Slave' because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. - Hilton Als
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I believe that one reason I began writing essays - a form without a form, until you make it - was this: you didn't have to borrow from an emotionally and visually upsetting past, as one did in fiction, apparently, to write your story. - Hilton Als
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I used to think that the feeling of alienation that I would have was just me, but I realise that it's also a symptom of the modern world. - Hilton Als
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Inspiration takes many forms, but it's rarely pure. - Hilton Als
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Julius Eastman is the kind of American genius not enough people know about. - Hilton Als
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In the contemporary world, artists are almost entirely self-referential. - Hilton Als
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American musicals are, for the most part, about boys, or boyish pursuits and aspirations - the fantasy of freedom and resolve - and those dreams have little to do with the reality of most black women's lives. - Hilton Als
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'Moonlight' undoes our expectations as viewers, and as human beings, too. As we watch, another movie plays in our minds: real-life footage of the many forms of damage done to black men, which can sometimes lead them to turn that hateful madness on their own kind, passing on the poison that was their inheritance. - Hilton Als
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