It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
You grow up in America and you're told from day one, 'This is the land of opportunity.' That everybody has an equal… — Geoffrey Canada Copy Share Image
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but… — Christian Scott Copy Share Image
Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran… — Norman Rockwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I trained with the American Theatre of Harlem, and by the grace of God, that was my foundation to understanding the art… — Rob Morgan Copy Share Image
I'm lucky to live in New York, a city that offers so many options for lunch. I can pick up dumplings from… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
How could I have been the valedictorian, the smartest, and never known Harlem existed? As a result, I began a lifelong learning… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
I've worked over four dozen nine-to-five jobs before taking the chance to chase my dream of wanting to become an actor and… — Malcolm Goodwin Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Harlem for me is Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., in one place. You have very significant churches that have had national… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
“What Harlem is, is constantly changing. It is a place that comes at you like a duet or a trio. Some avenues… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point… — Kevin Morby Copy Share Image
Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that… — Claude Brown Copy Share Image
When I went to the Studio Museum in Harlem, there was a type of freedom that existed where I didn't have to… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
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 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
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
'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
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
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
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it… — Chester Himes Copy Share Image
I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations… — Cam'ron 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
'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
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
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
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
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
There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on… — Andrew Wyatt 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
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
