Communication Quote by Bernice L. McFadden

“I spent so much of my life on the outside that I began to doubt that I would ever truly be in with any…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“What Harlem is, is constantly changing. It is a place that comes at you like a duet or a trio. Some avenues reveal a…

— Marcus Samuelsson

It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and…

— Kehinde Wiley

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money.…

— Rudolph Fisher

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture…

— Debbie Allen

“I knew, and every black man there knew, that I, as a man now white once again, could say the things that needed saying…

— John Howard Griffin

“may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,…

— Carter G. Woodson

“It would be very heard, for example, a basketball owner, no matter how racist he was, to try to operate without Blacks. It would…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“He was suggesting that all Negroes were held in a state of supreme tension between the difficult, dangerous relationship in which they stood to…

— James Baldwin

You go through the Civil Rights struggle, everybody knew the songs - 'We shall overcome.' Everybody would sing it. Music helped us. James Brown,…

— Geoffrey Canada

“It was awful to be Negro and have no control over my life. It was brutal to be young and already trained to sit…

— Maya Angelou