Top 643 Harlem Renaissance Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.

I had a paper route at eight years old in Harlem.

Where I'm from in Harlem, everybody look like a rapper.

I'm a modern-day renaissance man.

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

I'm from Harlem.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

I live the life of the last Renaissance man.

Dali was Renaissance man converted to psychoanalysis.

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.

As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

I never lost the taste and craft of the Renaissance.

Harlem World' is all about me doing my thing.

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

The Renaissance took place in chaos and plague.

In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

It's almost like a renaissance of racism we have.

You cannot mention Harlem Heat without mentioning Sherri Martel at the same time.

If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

Senegal needs a renaissance.

Seance to renaissance. So it begins

I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

I credit a lot of my success to being from Harlem, growing up there.

People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.

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

I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.

I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.

I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.

From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.

I am awaiting perpetually and forever a renaissance of wonder

I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.

In Harlem, for instance, all of the stores are owned by white people, all of the buildings are owned by white people. The black people are just there - paying rent, buying the groceries; but they don't own the stores, clothing stores, food stores, any kind of stores; don't even own the homes that they live in. They are all owned by outsiders, and for these run-down apartment dwellings, the black man in Harlem pays more money than the man down in the rich Park Avenue section.

Here - at this final hour, Harlem has come to bid farewell to one of its brightest hopes - extinguished now, and gone from us forever.... Many will ask what Harlem finds to honor in this stormy, controversial and bold young captain - and we will smile. ...We will answer and say unto them, ‘Did you ever talk to Brother Malcolm? Did you ever really listen to him? ...For if you did you would know him. And if you knew him you would know why we must honor him.'

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

It'd be nice to be what they call a Renaissance man.

You don't know Jay-Z's scedule. He's a renaissance man.

I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.

We need a renaissance of wonder.

I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.

Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.

When I was young, I was interested in Renaissance art.

Growing up in Harlem, I was always in the parks playing ball.

Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.

The Renaissance had resulted in the emancipation of the individual, in making him feel that the universe had no other purpose than his happiness. This brought an entirely new answer to the question, 'Why should I do this or that?' It used to be, 'Because self-instituted authority command you.' The answer now was, 'Because it is good for men.' In this lies our greatest debt to the Renaissance, that it instituted the welfare of men as the end of all action.

Nonresidents have a tendency to rush their visits to Harlem.

Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.

Harlem is really a melting pot for a lot of different people.

I'm finishing my Ph.D. in Italian Renaissance history.