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
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 don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me… — Queen Latifah Copy Share Image
I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in… — Charlie Day 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
I would love to do an anthology show based on the character of Jesse B. Semple that Langston Hughes wrote about. He's… — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
I'm sort of obsessed with Harlem. Just its history. My father did the music for a play called 'The Huey P. Newton… — Tessa Thompson Copy Share Image
In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people.… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem… — Regina Hall 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
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
When I was a young kid, my pops introduced me to it. He took me to Harlem, 145th and Edgecombe, to watch… — Tracy Morgan Copy Share Image
When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
In the Studio Museum in Harlem, when I was dealing with that community and dealing with my peers in the streets, it… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still… — Jean Pigozzi 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
I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ...… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
As a Black man, you are living in a place and you are constantly unsafe. And we go to these bastions of… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin'… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I'm a reporter. I've been a big supporter of The Clinton Foundation. Back in 2001 and 2002, people forget that Bill Clinton… — Donna Brazile Copy Share Image
Im grateful for my health, glad Im making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my… — David Alan Basche Copy Share Image
What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because,… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem… — Mike Colter 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
What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand… — Erik Estrada Copy Share Image
I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
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