Harlem Quote by Ossie Davis

“I spent so much of my life on the outside that I began to doubt that I would ever truly be in with any…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“The people in his Harlem did not speak, they sang their way through conversations and disagreements,”

— Bernice L. McFadden

It was something that came sort of matter-of-factually. Because there - it's like really - real honest engagement with the people around me and…

— Kehinde Wiley

“Human consciousness created objective existence and meaning, and man found his indispensable place in the great process of being.”

— Anthony Stevens

“You were born where you were born and faced the future that you faced because you were black and for no other reason. The…

— James Baldwin

“African American racial consciousness responds to the horrors of the Middle Passage and New World slavery as well as to the unfulfilled promise of…

— Bruce Dain

Uh, one-two one-two guess who back again. Uh, Harlem in this-what? Yeezy let Manhattan in.

— Mase

“Right now, Harlem is delicious. On the corner of 125th and Frederick Douglass Avenue, I turn my head south and see Little Senegal steeped…

— Marcus Samuelsson

“Our consciousness is in everything and is reflected back to us in everything we interact with or create.”

— Raym

“Why, when we regain consciousness, is it not an identity other than the one we had previously that is embodied in us? It is…

— Marcel Proust

“the Negro is a sort of seventh son, born with a veil, and gifted with second-sight in this American world,—a world which yields him…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Everyone around us sees themselves as essentially different from others, and from life in general. So we move in a world where almost everyone…

— Adyashanti