Died Quote by Cam'ron

“Negroes were drafted, white men weren’t; the poor were hauled off to war, the rich weren’t; the stupid were shot at, the bright boys…

— James A. Michener

“She hadn't loved Randolph Carter. He had been a man like many, so wrapped and rapt in his own story that there was no…

— Kij Johnson

Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“But he forgot to close a lock one night, and as a newspaper reported, “the negroes rose and cut the throat of Mr. Speers,…

— Edward E. Baptist

In January of 1969, after a meeting to discuss the leadership of UCLA's new Afro-American Program, [Alprentice "Bunchy" Carter and John Huggins, Jr.] were…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

When Barack Obama got elected, I remember being in Harlem specifically. I remember watching that whole part of town just swell. People walked the…

— Mike Colter

I was raised in Chicago and I guess that was one of the special breeding grounds for gangsters of all colors. That was the…

— Quincy Jones

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

“If we had learned anything over the last decade, it was that there was no other way to defeat slavery, except with a willingness…

— Russell Banks

“he hated the white men who interfered with the manly pursuits of throat-cutting, kidnapping, slave-dealing, and fire-raising,”

— Jose Conrad

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be…

— Claude Brown

The meek and the humble died at Mt. Carmel. And the strong and the arrogant - the FBI and the ATF - lived.

— David Thibodeau