Being real Quote by Chester Himes

I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a…

— Walter Dean Myers

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

Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me,…

— LaToya Jackson

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

— Mase

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

— Dave East

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

— Mase

My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.

— Langston Hughes

Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a…

— Wallace Thurman

I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else,…

— Samuel R. Delany

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

— Mike Colter

It was the desire to see black girls and our experiences in the books that I was given to read at school that forced…

— Marley Dias

I wanted to pay homage to someone who was such an important literary figure in my life. I think Langston Hughes would be proud…

— Kasi Lemmons