People Quote by Lynne Stewart

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

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

— Mekhi Phifer

I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know…

— Lynne Stewart

If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere else in…

— Mike Colter

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I grew up in Harlem, but I moved to the Lower East Side when I was a teenager and it was ... I feel…

— Zoe Leonard

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people. When you look at Harlem - and I lived there almost five…

— Mike Colter

Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.

— Anonymous

I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

— Ron Cephas Jones

I credit a lot of my success to being from Harlem, growing up there.

— Mohamed Bamba

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

— John Catsimatidis

I'm from Harlem.

— Princess Nokia