Top 643 Harlem Renaissance Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on December 4, 2024.
Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
I am what I have always been: the last Renaissance man, if I may be allowed to say so.
In essence the Renaissance was simply the green end of one of civilization's hardest winters.
There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!
We are going to see a burst of creativity that will make the Renaissance pale in comparison.
I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.
In the '60s, the Sunset Strip became insane. The sidewalks and the traffic were jammed. It was a renaissance.
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
If you've ever been to Harlem, there's always something playing on the street, and there's this energy that feels different to anywhere else in New York.
It is precisely the despair of our times that convinces me that a renaissance is right around the corner.
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
We live in a time of renaissance ... cities are coming back to life, after a long neglect.
I love the idea of renaissance. If my career is like painting a canvas, I want to have as many different colors in there as I can.
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
We're lucky to be in the middle of a TV renaissance. It's the healthiest storytelling medium in our culture.
RuPaul is someone who I really look up to because he's very much a renaissance man.
I always say that Sheri Martell was that one thing that put Harlem Heat on the map, made us a legitimate tag team.
I've lived all over the world, but Harlem is very special to me, and when I decided to open a restaurant near my home, I didn't want it to be business as usual.
When I first got to the city, I had no money. I was living in Queens amongst boxes and lived in Harlem and didn't have a couch.
The Renaissance of the fifteenth century was, in many things, great rather by what it designed then by what it achieved.
We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really.
I'm a federalist. I believe in the Italy of municipalities, of the Renaissance, not in Mussolini's centralization.
Last time I checked, there were no Americans at all in Renaissance art.
But it has been a long process because I'm kind of a renaissance person.
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
The Renaissance is studded by the names of the artists and architects, with their creations recorded as great historical events.
The things that I look at include Renaissance art. I'm obsessed with churches and paintings of saints.
It seems to me that a kind of thinking which is not technocratic has an opportunity for a renaissance in this country.
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
We're starting to see a renaissance of investors embracing the idea that scientists can build businesses.
Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.
I think 'renaissance woman' is a really fancy way of saying that I'm scatter-brained and non-commital.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
I'm a poet. I'm just a renaissance man in my heart. I can build shelves and I can write poetry.
Most of the people you look at in the early days of Harlem - the zoot suits, the music, the style of fashion, the vibrant colors - that's all influences from the south.
Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.
Marxism is like a classical building that followed the Renaissance; beautiful in its way, but incapable of growth.
I have a theory, now - that the whole of the Renaissance was peopled with girls dressed as boys so they could make art.
We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance.
To implement a true urban renaissance, you first need a Grand Design elaborated by strong leadership .
At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.
Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.
Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.
Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
For example, I like using strong Greek and Roman Renaissance characters as part of my series.
There should be a Transatlantic renaissance between the US and Europe based on shared prosperity, security, and values.
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.
There is a renaissance of really great genre entertainment happening. But it's become incredibly audience-specific.
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.
While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissance.
A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
First there was Greek civilization. Then there was the Renaissance. Now we’re entering the Age of the Ass.
Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after dark.
