In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America. — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a… — Dave East Copy Share Image
A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am. — Dave East Copy Share Image
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it. — Cam'ron Copy Share Image
“--and that if you gave them a dance floor and a full band to fuel them, they could do more than dance:… — Brendan Mathews Copy Share Image
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed. — Erik Estrada Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
My dad moved to New York after he won "Soul Train" and the car and got settled in out there and was… — Mahershala Ali Copy Share Image
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in… — James Brolin Copy Share Image
I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and… — Justin Torres Copy Share Image
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“About the time I was 17 and graduated from high school, I went to Harlem, and that was a most beautiful place… — Oliver W. Harrington Copy Share Image
And then there was moments with white guy where like we would be in Harlem. There would be five brothers in the… — Sanaa Lathan Copy Share Image
Former Vermont Governor Howard Dean was all smiles, well smirks, after picking up the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore at… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
I talked to my mother about it a lot. I asked her what it was like to grow up in New York… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
A long time ago, I took a walk down a street in Harlem in New York City. I came upon a man… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Usually the German translators do something terrible, especially with Tom Wolfe, which is that they make it local. So if the characters… — Daniel Kehlmann Copy Share Image
I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who… — James de la Vega Copy Share Image
I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem. — Amanda Seales Copy Share Image
“The people in his Harlem did not speak, they sang their way through conversations and disagreements,” — Bernice L. McFadden Copy Share Image
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“You know gentrification is deep when a garage rock band made up of three white boys is called "Harlem".” — Kara Lee Corthron Copy Share Image
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me. — Sammy Davis, Jr Copy Share Image
Uh, one-two one-two guess who back again. Uh, Harlem in this-what? Yeezy let Manhattan in. — Mase Copy Share Image
I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem. — Ruby Dee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
One thing that drives me crazy is when people tell me that I sound good for an athlete. They be like, 'You… — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on… — Andrew Wyatt Copy Share Image
In Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water,… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'. — Mase Copy Share Image
'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of… — Alex Gibney Copy Share Image
In my own young black life, I have done my part to gentrify a half-dozen mixed neighborhoods ranging from Spanish Harlem to… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake… — John McEnroe Copy Share Image
