Art Quote by Debbie Allen

For someone who loves literature, and all books on principle, being asked to name three titles over a half century of serious reading is…

— Thomas Steinbeck

No one who loves life can ignore literature, and no one who loves literature can ignore life.

— Laura Esquivel

We didn't sit around the dining table talking about Madam Walker, but the silverware that we used every day had her monogram on it…

— A'Lelia Bundles

When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“About the time I was 17 and graduated from high school, I went to Harlem, and that was a most beautiful place where, fortunately…

— Oliver W. Harrington

Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want…

— Marley Dias

The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

— Aberjhani

From the small clubs of the Harlem Renaissance where he began playing saxophone to world tours for the biggest of the big bands, Benny…

— William J. Clinton

I am particularly conscious of my connection to the poets of the Harlem Renaissance because I, too, am a Black poet, born into, and…

— Nikki Grimes

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, you know,…

— Sandra Cisneros

“The intellects of the Harlem Renaissance realized that before whites would see blacks as equals, first blacks had to see themselves that way- and…

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance… James Davis's finely written, beautifully…

— David Levering Lewis