I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love, by Hilton Als

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December 2012 Issue [Memoir]

I Am Your Conscious, I Am Love

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A paean 2 Prince

if i was your girlfriend

Dick jokes, ass jokes, black-women-versus-white-women jokes, Taliban jokes, Whitney Houston jokes, more sex jokes, and then, finally, the best joke of all, because it plays like a confession telegraphed directly out of the comedian’s subconscious. From Jamie Foxx’s 2002 television stand-up special, I Might Need Security: “Hollywood is freaky . . . You get the chance to meet all your, you know, your favorite stars when you’re in Hollywood. And I met Prince . . . the man, you know what I’m sayin’?” Applause.

Jamie Foxx, dressed in a blue shirt with a satin sheen and dark…

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 is a staff writer at The New Yorker. His book White Girls will be published this spring by McSweeney’s.



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