Children Quote by Ruby Dee

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

— Mase

I'm from Harlem.

— Princess Nokia

As a black woman, I've always had to work hard to earn my respect as a musician - and as a young woman, too.…

— Gabriella Wilson

Growing up I thought I might be the only black person in the world.

— Ncuti Gatwa

You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin

— William Christopher Handy

People say I'm the white Aretha Franklin. I wish I was her.

— Joss Stone

I think of myself as a girl from Brooklyn.

— Barbra Streisand

I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody…

— Lena Horne

There are so many people who have this idea of who I am because I'm black.

— Clarence Thomas

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

— Dave East

I've spent my whole career trying to stay out of any box that anyone could put me in. 'I'm going to do a play…

— Audra McDonald

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