Harlem Quotes · Page 3

“In Harlem, Negro policemen are feared more than whites, for they have more to prove and fewer ways to prove it”

— James Baldwin

Thanks, but the last time I was in New York I kind of broke...Harlem. -Bruce Banner

— The Avengers

Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after…

— Craig Kilborn

I credit a lot of my success to being from Harlem, growing up there.

— Mohamed Bamba

Uh, one-two one-two guess who back again. Uh, Harlem in this-what? Yeezy let Manhattan in.

— Mase

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

— Amiri Baraka

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

— Ruby Dee

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

— Sammy Davis, Jr

I like musk and oud in a really, really delicate way. Because sometimes, if there's too much oud, it just smells like…

— Saint Jhn

When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as…

— Rush Limbaugh

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

Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to…

— Artie Lange

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

After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain…

— Francis Quarles

I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in…

— Charlie Day

I had seen the photographs of Harlem in its glory days, stylish men in bespoke suits, women so well dressed that they'd…

— Marcus Samuelsson

I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois’s…

— Barack Obama

I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing…

— Marcus Samuelsson

He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover…

— Ben E. King

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

— Maya Angelou

No individual has done more to help me pursue a career in science than my wife of forty-five years. I met Enid…

— Robert Fogel

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

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

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

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.

— Mase

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

— Ethel Waters

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

— Constance Baker Motley

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

— Althea Gibson

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

— Angela Bassett

If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.

— Brett Morris

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

— Dave East

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

— Carl Hart

I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.

— Dave East

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

— Shawn Amos

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

— Cam'ron

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

— Ruby Dee

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

— Dennis Rodman