Harlem Quotes

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

— Anonymous

Now do the HARLEM SHAKE!!

— Harlem Shake

“Harlem sleeps late.”

— Jacob M. Appel

I'm from Harlem.

— Princess Nokia

Do Tha Harlem Shake

— Kimberly

Whose little boy are you?

— Anonymous

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

— Mekhi Phifer

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

— Charles B. Rangel

Nonresidents have a tendency to rush their visits to Harlem.

— Josh Gondelman

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

— Foxy Brown

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

— Dave East

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

— Dave East

How about you Harlem Shake off a cliff already?

— Music_lover

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

— Malcolm X

Yeah, I really like Thrillers by Harlem Cobin. I think they're really amazing, quite exciting.

— Serge Gnabry

Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk…

— Anonymous

Young harlem nigga from the NY. Get money, spend money, stay fly. Those the 3 codes that I live by.

— Jae Millz

“Jerusalem was where it all went down, man. It was connected to heaven like Spanish Harlem was connected to Puerto Rico.”

— Tom Robbins

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

— Booker T

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so…

— Ruby Dee

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

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

My peers at the time: you know, young black kids from off the streets of Harlem, having these conversations with me in…

— Kehinde Wiley

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

'Park Avenue: Money, Power and the American Dream' is an intentionally angry film. How could it not be when the chance of…

— Alex Gibney

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I…

— Johnny Depp

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be…

— Duke Ellington

As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have…

— Langston Hughes

I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of…

— Michael Jackson

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

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

One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem…

— Bette Midler

If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's…

— Rita Dove

“Claudie wrinkled her nose. 'I don't think anyone would buy a ticket to see me perform,' she said. Selma laughed. 'What do…

— Brit Bennett

I think that once you're able to sort of get in line with who and how you relate to the world, you'll…

— Kehinde Wiley

“The rosy enthusiasms and hopes of 1925," Alain Locke said ten years later, "were. . . cruelly deceptive mirages." The ghetto was…

— Gilbert Osofsky

Here's what I love: when a great writer turns me into a Jew from Chicago, a lesbian out of South Carolina, or…

— Pat Conroy

I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.

— Glenn Ligon

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

— Mike Colter