Bread Quote by Ritchie Torres

If you grow up in the South Bronx today or in south-central Los Angeles or Pittsburgh or Philadelphia, you quickly come to understand that…

— Jonathan Kozol

New York has a tremendous number of people but the quality of its politics is unspeakable. By contrast, in a smaller township, I find…

— Murray Bookchin

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

— Charles Oliveira

New York is actually a pretty safe place, and I think invoking the Bronx as a metaphor for the nightmarish urban environment is no…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

I feel like when being raised in New York City I have a particular perspective on things like Gay issues maybe, because I'm in…

— Joy Behar

I grew up in the Bronx. The Bronx teaches you to survive. It's like, 'Bring it on!'

— Wesley Snipes

I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation…

— Billy Eichner

As one of the voices of rural New Yorkers in Congress, I am committed to supporting efforts such as these that will make a…

— John M. McHugh

I'm always thinking about how what I'm doing is affecting the people around me. As a New Yorker, you have to be that way.

— Bobby Berk

New Yorkers of all ages are engaging with the world around them through their phones. One reason we've been able to get so many…

— Zohran Mamdani

I'm a Bronx boy to the core.

— Ritchie Torres

I think the sensibilities of having grown up in Upstate New York and the concerns, the fears, the hopes of the people there are…

— David Muir