New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
One of the first TV shows that I did was this prank show. And we did a prank where we took a… — Rob Huebel Copy Share Image
The South Bronx has long been ground zero for racially concentrated poverty. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
My whole world before I joined the Navy was my neighborhood in the Bronx. — Tony Curtis Copy Share Image
Rather than think of it as somewhere to run from, the Bronx is somewhere to invest. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
I never thought life would take me on a journey from the Bronx to Washington, D.C. — Ritchie Torres Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!' — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
When I was four years old, my mother owned some tenements in the Bronx. — Cy Coleman Copy Share Image
I've been a law-abiding citizen ever since I grew up in the Bronx, New York. — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
Nobody wants to admit it, but they send the worst teachers to The Bronx. — Ruben Diaz Sr Copy Share Image
I wake up every day, and I'm a Puerto Rican girl from the Bronx. Every single day. — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Copy Share Image
“Guy, go get me a switch. This muthafucker done pissed the bed again.” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
Sustainable South Bronx advocates for environmental justice through sustainable environmental and economic development projects. — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
I actually had a job while I was acting and was a nursing student, which I had to drop due to my… — Dascha Polanco Copy Share Image
“I went home later that night, thinking about everything. I wanted revenge for my cousin, but what did I know about revenge?” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
There's a lady up in heaven who must be very proud of the way the people in Baltimore have treated her boy… — Art Donovan Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough… — Maggie Siff Copy Share Image
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt… — Jason Alexander Copy Share Image
I come from the South Bronx - a true descendant of the melting pot. I grew up in a really mixed neighborhood;… — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
I came from the Bronx and a certain background. I worked really hard. I kept my focus on the right things. — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at… — Majora Carter Copy Share Image
To be able to help a 13-year-old kid from the Bronx follow her dreams just by letting her know she's not forgotten… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor… — Philip Zimbardo Copy Share Image
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens,… — Kool Moe Dee Copy Share Image
I grew up in the Southwest Bronx. Father an accountant, mother a schoolteacher. Brother was six years older, which explains why I… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in the Bronx and my grandfather and my brother Garry were huge Yankees fans. One of my… — Penny Marshall Copy Share Image
I was a quiet, nerdy kid living in the Bronx. I spent most of my teens in my room, taking apart electrical… — Grandmaster Flash Copy Share Image
I think one of the greatest compliments I've ever received was when a young kid came backstage at Joe's Pub, when I… — Dion DiMucci Copy Share Image
When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in… — Dominic Chianese Copy Share Image
“Fuck that! You think I’m gonna let the nigger get a gun? I’m gonna handle this shit now.” — Russell Vann Copy Share Image
When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily. — Daniel Libeskind Copy Share Image
I chose 'BronxWorks' because I'm from The Bronx, and I got raised in The Bronx, and I just know the struggle and… — Hennessy Carolina Copy Share Image
“The kids from Stuyvesant and Bronx Science formed their own pale New York clique that people seemed to leave alone,” — Michele Campbell Copy Share Image
The Bronx are great. I have a lot of respect for those guys, they know more about music and how that world… — Coeur de pirate Copy Share Image
