Harlem renaissance Quotes

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

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

— Debbie Allen

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

— Sandra Cisneros

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the…

— Aberjhani

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved.…

— Marley Dias

“History, too, has a penchant for giving birth to itself over and over again, and those whom it appoints agents of change…

— Aberjhani

What will make the 'Bitter Root' film unique is that it is a Black-owned, Black-created storyline steeped in the history of the…

— Jason Johnson

“The intellects of the Harlem Renaissance realized that before whites would see blacks as equals, first blacks had to see themselves that…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period…

— Nikki Grimes

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born…

— Nikki Grimes

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

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram…

— A'Lelia Bundles

The Great Migration changed American history not just for the migrants but for all of us. It made possible American cultural milestones…

— William Barr

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big…

— William J. Clinton

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

A dream role is a role that you can't even picture for yourself. Everything I've ever played I never pictured I would…

— Cynthia Addai-Robinson

“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

When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance, we rarely get a definitive…

— Aberjhani

Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely…

— David Levering Lewis