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
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
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
One thing that drives me crazy is when people tell me that I sound good for an athlete. They be like, 'You… — Mohamed Bamba Copy Share Image
Thinking back to boyhood days, I remember the bright sun on Harlem streets, the easy rhythms of black and brown bodies, the… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to… — Dick Gregory Copy Share Image
In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the… — Thomas Hauser Copy Share Image
In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you… — Rudolph Fisher Copy Share Image
I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
Crisis' seems to be too mild a word to describe conditions in countless African-American communities. It is beyond crisis when in the… — Johnnetta B. Cole Copy Share Image
“The people in Harlem know they are living there because white people do not think they are good enough to live anywhere… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
When I think of the Harlem Renaissance, I think of bright colors, and bold, dynamic art. African American artists of the period… — Nikki Grimes 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
People are too afraid of uptown. A lot of people will tell you, like, "Don't go to Harlem. You can never go… — Louis C. K 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
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
Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin'… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a… — Dave East Copy Share Image
As a Black man, you are living in a place and you are constantly unsafe. And we go to these bastions of… — Jonathan Majors Copy Share Image
The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also… — Cheo Hodari Coker Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ...… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
Since the '80s, Harlem has the place to go. Before the '80s, just as far as hip-hop go, Harlem has always been… — Dave East Copy Share Image
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to… — Samuel R. Delany 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
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
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
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
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I… — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I… — Lynne Stewart Copy Share Image
My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand… — Erik Estrada Copy Share Image
What makes Harlem special is that at any given time, food seekers can not only find food deeply rooted in Southern, Latin… — Marcus Samuelsson Copy Share Image
“Cause I can love a poem up out of you-like my middle name is Harlem..and my fingerprints are permanent-you ain't gone wash… — Shanica Stewart Copy Share Image
I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia.… This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope.…… — Al Sharpton Copy Share Image
I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who… — James de la Vega Copy Share Image
When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five years - most of the people who live in Harlem… — Mike Colter Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“--and that if you gave them a dance floor and a full band to fuel them, they could do more than dance:… — Brendan Mathews Copy Share Image
When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no… — ASAP Rocky Copy Share Image
![“I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to…” quote by Kehinde Wiley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd2/kehinde-wiley-1194_art_i-began-working-within-the-streets-of-ha_2894302.jpg)
![“It's easy. [Black man] is - he's separate already. The fact that you have Harlem, the fact that you have the Negro ghetto and the so-called Negro slum, he's already separate.” quote by Malcolm X](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/de1/malcolm-x-213_black_it-s-easy-black-man-is-he-s-separate-alr_1550568.jpg)
![“The other day I went to a school in Harlem to talk to some 7th graders [12-year-olds] and I said, ‘If I have to give you some advice, the most important thing is: the sooner you become your own best friend, the better your life will be,’” quote by Diane von Furstenberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/659/diane-von-furstenberg-1664_advice_the-other-day-i-went-to-a-school-in-harl_2778674.jpg)
