Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world. — Constance Baker Motley Copy Share Image
Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Why doesn't anyone care that the schools in Harlem have been unsuccessful for half a century? Why is this not a big… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I always say that Sheri Martell was that one thing that put Harlem Heat on the map, made us a legitimate tag… — Booker T Copy Share Image
I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so… — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
“Jerusalem was where it all went down, man. It was connected to heaven like Spanish Harlem was connected to Puerto Rico.” — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would… — Nayvadius Cash Copy Share Image
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Kati with an I was a New York Times Critics' Pick and I was really happy that it got a run uptown… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting… — Keith Sweat Copy Share Image
In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape.… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making… — Wesley Snipes Copy Share Image
“Right now in Harlem, for every bank and chicken wing franchise joint, there is a small business owner who has spent a… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and… — Ronnie Spector Copy Share Image
Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Yeah, I really like Thrillers by Harlem Cobin. I think they're really amazing, quite exciting. — Serge Gnabry Copy Share Image
As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be… — Duke Ellington Copy Share Image
My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white. — Mekhi Phifer Copy Share Image
After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars. — Wilt Chamberlain Copy Share Image
Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
I used to watch all the dancers from the dance theater of Harlem when i was younger and i wanted to be… — Michaela DePrince Copy Share Image
Honestly, what 'Luke Cage' is - it's a hip-hop Western. And you have Luke Cage as the sheriff of Harlem. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years. — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been… — Dave East Copy Share Image
And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died. — Cam'ron Copy Share Image
I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem. — Carl Hart Copy Share Image
