Eight Quote by Malik Yoba

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

I started running in Junior High School. I was so slow and uncoordinated the coach set me up with a paper route so that…

— Gerry Lindgren

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at…

— Kehinde Wiley

I started writing about New York as soon as I arrived. I was 19. I used to write short stories and send them out.

— Candace Bushnell

I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

— Erma Bombeck

I was a paper boy, beginning the summer between my fourth-grade and fifth-grade years.

— David Boies

I was working probably at the age of 10, when I had my first paper route. I had every different kind of job you…

— Howard Schultz

I moved to New York in the 1970s and started writing when I was at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program.

— Jenny Holzer

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

— Gabourey Sidibe

I came to New York in 1986. My father didn't think it was a good idea. I didn't know how I found it, but…

— Francisco Costa

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

— John Catsimatidis

I was bused to a school in Gerritsen Beach in Brooklyn in 1972. I was one of the first black kids in the history…

— Chris Rock