“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.” PeopleIfsWellsMotherExpectationsHardest Author:Hilton Als
“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.” PeopleWayFallPowerfulFalling In LoveReally Powerful Author:Hilton Als
“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.” PeopleIfsKnowsHardSocialSadnessTwentiesAidsInstanceFortySocial Life Author:Hilton Als
“People approach people of color with preconceived ideas. I don't think this is just restricted to white people, but I think that lots of black and white artists, when race is a subject matter, they put race or the ideology around race first. They don't see the person and the complications of the human being.” PeopleThinkingArtistBlackIdeologyBlack And WhiteComplication Author:Hilton Als
“I used to always love taking photos, but I would always give a camera away to someone else. Now I don't give the camera away anymore. It also takes a long time to develop a visual style, and I think that the things that I was imitating were people I love, like Judy Linn or Gerald Turner, and then it slowly started to become more myself.” PeopleThinkingGivingLongStyle Author:Hilton Als
“People are quick to make monuments of anything they live long enough to control.” PeopleLongEnoughMonument Author:Hilton Als
“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.” PeopleSometimesCareBlackWhiteBabyBlack PeopleAgain And AgainYou Again Book:White Girls Source: White Girls
