Barack obama Quote by Mike Colter

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and…

— Hari Kunzru

I met Obama once, backstage at the Apollo in Harlem.

— Glenn Ligon

It wasn't [Barack] Obama per se; it was the feeling on the ground; it was seeing an old black woman in a wheelchair being…

— Bill Ayers

I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture…

— Debbie Allen

As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had…

— John Carlos

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 think probably one of the coolest things was when I went to play basketball at Rucker Park in Harlem. First of all, who…

— Larry the Cable Guy

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

The uproar of the late '60s - the antiwar movement, black riots, angry women. It was a wonderful time.

— Molly Ivins

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

There's been so many, I think [Lucas Goodman and I] share this, but for us, Afropunk was a really big moment just because it…

— Jillian Hervey