For black people, being around white people is sometimes like taking care of babies you don’t like. Hilton Als Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it. Hilton Als Read Quote
I didn’t like ’12 Years a Slave’ because it was playing to the Spielbergian model of redemption. Hilton Als Read Quote
I think one of the things that started to hinder Baldwin as an artist later on was that he became really aware of power, so he wanted it, too. But if you look at the work before that, before ‘The Fire Next Time’ put him on the cover of ‘Time Magazine,’ it was much more intimate and a much more internal conversation. Hilton Als Read Quote
When you work at a magazine, you have to tell the truth. When you’re not working in that format, it’s fun to see where your mind takes you when the dictates have nothing to do with anyone but yourself. Hilton Als Read Quote
