“This, Irene told her, was the year 1927 in the city of New York, and hundreds of white people of Hugh Wentworth’s… — Nella Larsen Copy Share Image
It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a… — Penn Dayton Badgley Copy Share Image
There were the people that believed in me when I was walking around Spanish Harlem, saying that I was going to be… — Paula Garces Copy Share Image
I lived in mafia neighborhoods off and on when I was a kid. If you were in Little Italy, in East Harlem,… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
I don't know why people always compare me [ with Amiri Baraka] I was never part of the Black Arts Repertory Theater… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can… — Marcus Samuelsson 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
We both grew up in the atmosphere of struggle, both Ossie and me, ... I come out of Harlem and Harlem comes… — Ruby Dee 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
“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“The projects in Harlem are hated. They are hated almost as much as policemen, and this is saying a great deal. And… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“Lieutenant Thomas R. Gilligan, thirty-seven, was off duty and out of uniform, checking out TVs in an electronics store. He went to… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
'Harlem River' is about the Harlem River in uptown Manhattan. I don't know much to say about it. I came upon that… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
“... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where,… — Ossie Davis Copy Share Image
Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of… — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Marcus Samuelsson is a chef who inspires me everyday. He has such a deep understanding of flavors and techniques. His food is… — Aaron Sanchez Copy Share Image
The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties… — Yves Saint Laurent Copy Share Image
I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these… — Tony Danza Copy Share Image
'Reign' is probably the oldest one on the record. I wrote that when I was 19. 'The Dead They Don't Come Back,'… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
I'm not going to let Donald Trump take away from our community, something that Fannie Lou Hamer shed blood to give us.… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
Blacks commit murder eight times more per capita than any other group in our society. If I had put all of my… — Rudy Giuliani Copy Share Image
“Black is beautiful. Black isn’t power. Knowledge is power. You can be black as a crow or white as snow but if… — Lewis H. Michaux Copy Share Image
The first time I went to New York, I went with my first boyfriend, Clark. His dad had just bought an apartment… — Kate Moss Copy Share Image
When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
The thing that surprised me the most is just how much money women that weren't rich were paying for their hair. When… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense… — Debbie Allen Copy Share Image
You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but… — Jamaal Bowman Copy Share Image
I was playing organ at a silent movie house at Harlem and they'd be showing some death scene on the screen. Likely… — Fats Waller Copy Share Image
During all the years I entertained at the Baby Grand night club in Harlem, 90 percent of the audience was white. But… — Nipsey Russell Copy Share Image
All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the… — James A. Baldwin 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
You may go from the Battery to Harlem, and in our monuments and statues of public men you will see the slavish… — Gutzon Borglum Copy Share Image
The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in… — Wallace Thurman Copy Share Image
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