A Quote by Betty Smith

It meant that she belonged some place. She was a Brooklyn girl with a Brooklyn name and a Brooklyn accent. She didn't want to change into a bit of this and a bit of that.

Betty Smith

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Betty Smith
American - Writer
December 15, 1896 - January 17, 1972

Brooklyn is definitely the only place to live in the New York area. I love Brooklyn. Go Brooklyn!

Michael Pitt

For people who know both New York and the Bay Area, it is a complement to say that Oakland is San Francisco's Brooklyn. It's a complement both to Oakland and to Brooklyn. And, if you look at Brooklyn, Brooklyn is hot; Brooklyn is cool.

Mitch Kapor

I live in Brooklyn, and there's so many interracial couples in Brooklyn. In Brooklyn, you don't talk about race like that.

Jessica Williams

I love Brooklyn so much. Everything I do I try to do in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is my home base.

Angela Yee

Brooklyn is a hub; people move to Brooklyn because of what's already in Brooklyn.

Caroline Polachek

Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.

Waris Dirie

It was always a funny thing when someone would ask me my name and I would say "Brooklyn." They would always think that I meant that I lived in Brooklyn, and I would have to clarify that.

Brooklyn Sudano

My mother was not a country girl. She was a Brooklyn girl, born and raised in Flatbush, and then a Long Island girl, who liked shopping, 'a little glitter' in her clothes, and keeping secret the actual color of her hair, which from the day I was born to the day she died, was the 'platinum blonde' of Jean Harlow's.

Tom Junod

My grandmother was born in Russia, and she came through Poland on her way to America in the early 20s. She moved to Brooklyn.

Bryce Dessner

The major perk of living in Brooklyn is that everything is there. If I did not want to leave Brooklyn, I could stay there the whole time.

Cynthia Erivo

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.