Harlem Quotes · Page 3

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

— Sandra Cisneros

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

— Cam'ron

I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.

— Ruby Dee

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

— Shawn Amos

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,

— Dennis Rodman

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

— Carl Hart

I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.

— Dave East

Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem…

— Langston Hughes

Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but…

— Christian Scott

It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around…

— Kehinde Wiley

You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal…

— Geoffrey Canada

Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown…

— Robert Greene

When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to…

— Kehinde Wiley

Till I die I'm uptown and dead prezzys what I'm countin' in. Cut milli-mountsins, nigga what you know about 'em. So Harlem…

— Jae Millz

Ya'll know Teyana get the party started, its... soo crazy, soo retarded. I'm soo New york... I'm soo damn Harlem. Check it,…

— Teyana Taylor

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in…

— Kehinde Wiley

Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big…

— William J. Clinton

I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five…

— Lynne Stewart

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and…

— ASAP Rocky

I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and…

— Malcolm Goodwin

Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the…

— Dawoud Bey

How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning…

— Lynne Stewart

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

— Dave East

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

— Erik Estrada

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

— Amanda Seales

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

— Dan Wakefield

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.

— Cam'ron

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

— Paul Mooney

You cannot mention Harlem Heat without mentioning Sherri Martel at the same time.

— Booker T

“You know gentrification is deep when a garage rock band made up of three white boys is called "Harlem".”

— Kara Lee Corthron

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

— Debbie Allen

“The people in his Harlem did not speak, they sang their way through conversations and disagreements,”

— Bernice L. McFadden

Uh, one-two one-two guess who back again. Uh, Harlem in this-what? Yeezy let Manhattan in.

— Mase

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

— Ruby Dee

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after…

— Craig Kilborn