Born Quote by Mekhi Phifer

I'm from Harlem.

— Princess Nokia

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

— Mohamed Bamba

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

— Gabourey Sidibe

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

— Foxy Brown

I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up…

— Walter Dean Myers

I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

— Ron Cephas Jones

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

— John Catsimatidis

I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is…

— Lynne Stewart

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

— Mase

I'm a Brooklyn boy. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised there, and spent most of my childhood there.

— Robert Jay Lifton

You know, I grew up Black in America, I grew up close to Spanish Harlem where we ain't have much money, but we was…

— Jamaal Bowman

I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and…

— Colin Powell