Harlem Quotes · Page 6

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower…

— Richard Price

“... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where,…

— Ossie Davis

Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of…

— Ella Fitzgerald

Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is…

— Aaron Sanchez

Do Tha Harlem Shake

— Kimberly

I'm from Harlem.

— Princess Nokia

Where I'm from in Harlem, everybody look like a rapper.

— Dave East

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

— Charles B. Rangel

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

— Mekhi Phifer

“Naturally, this country can't stand truth.”

— Lewis H. Michaux

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

— Sandra Cisneros

Honestly, what 'Luke Cage' is - it's a hip-hop Western. And you have Luke Cage as the sheriff of Harlem.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

— Marcia Gay Harden

I always say that Sheri Martell was that one thing that put Harlem Heat on the map, made us a legitimate tag…

— Booker T

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

— Debbie Allen

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

— Cam'ron

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

— Dan Wakefield

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

— Dennis Rodman

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so…

— Chadwick Boseman

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that…

— Claude Brown

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

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

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price,…

— Ronald Reagan

After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem…

— Patrick Rothfuss

I started reading. I read everything I could get my hands on...By the time I was thirteen I had read myself out…

— James A. Baldwin

If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere…

— Mike Colter

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

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

— Kehinde Wiley

“What Harlem is, is constantly changing. It is a place that comes at you like a duet or a trio. Some avenues…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we…

— John Henrik Clarke

“I can conceive of no Negro native to this country who has not, by the age of puberty, been irreparably scarred by…

— James Baldwin

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine…

— Walter Dean Myers

I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love…

— Maya Angelou

“In Harlem the government pushes heroin to keep the blacks down and doctors by the thousands give barbiturates and tranquilizers to all…

— Marilyn French

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

— Ruby Dee

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

— Cam'ron

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

— Shawn Amos

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

— Althea Gibson

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

— Ethel Waters

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

— Angela Bassett