“Twelve. That was the year that I learned that being Black and poor defined me more than being bright and hopeful and ready.”
“Dogs like to talk. We are talking all the time, non-stop. To each other, to humans, to ourselves. Talk, talk, talk . . . During every sniff, every bark, every crotch nuzzle, every spray of a lamppost, we are speaking our minds. So if you want the truth, ask the dog”
Video: Introducing Gilliamesque
‘The grity, gripping and grimly comic stories in The Graybar Hotel give form and content to inmates lives that, on the surface, are defined by loneliness, boredom, violence and alienation.’
Chris Moss
The Telegraph Men
Alasdair Gray interviewed by the BBC in 2007 on his introduction to art and books.
