“I think it's cultural racism more than anything, which dovetails with actual racism, but the cultural racism to me is even more shocking.” ThinkingRacismShocking Author:Hilton Als
“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.” IfsThinkingFeelsCrazySubjectsJournalistic Author:Hilton Als
“I really don't think we should dismiss a book because we feel messed about intellectually. Or emotionally. That's the writer's job!” ThinkingFeelsShouldBookJobs Author:Hilton Als
“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!” ThinkingWantShouldWritingBookSelfPhilosophyHelpingGirlWhiteTeachFormerOur ThoughtsObscureDenseBrianWhite Girl Author:Hilton Als
“I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.” ThinkingTeaching Author:Hilton Als
“I think Northern California is the most beautiful place on earth. And I adore New Orleans, but there's something about the air in SF, for instance. It changes from moment to moment, like one's thoughts.” ThinkingMomentsEarthBeautifulAirInstanceCaliforniaAdoreNew OrleansBeautiful PlacesNorthern California 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 think writing is an act of remembrance, I think that Instagram is an act of remembrance, and I think curating a show is an act of memory, too.” ThinkingWritingMemoriesRemembrance 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
“I think I'm just generally more interested in figuration than abstraction. I think that painting abstraction often feels like painting colors to me, whereas portraits always feel like something connected. I like the exchange, the collaborative aspect of sitter and subject for sure.” ThinkingPainting Author:Hilton Als
