Top 284 Harlem Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on November 12, 2024.
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.
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.
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
People don't really know, but I went to Dance Theatre of Harlem in New York.
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.
I've been able to provide for my family, move out of Harlem and travel the world.
I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.
And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.
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.
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
After years of research, scientists recently reported that there is, indeed, arroz in Spanish Harlem. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.
You cannot mention Harlem Heat without mentioning Sherri Martel at the same time.
I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.
Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
To get to play someone who was in some capacity the King of Harlem, that meant something to me. Deep within my bones. I was inspired by the energy that I knew to be a real thing.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after dark.
I was born in Harlem, raised in the South Bronx, went to public school, got out of public college, went into the Army, and then I just stuck with it.
Just growing up in Harlem, it didn't matter what you had to do to get fresh - you would do it.
Harlem has always been the nexus of music, politics, culture, criminal figures.
Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.
I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.
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 played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
Man I mean, the great thing about playing clubs in Harlem is people have an appreciation not just for the music but for the history of the music.
A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.
As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.
I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I can have kids travel to different places, countries, areas, it can expand their minds.
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.
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.'
I trained with the American Theatre of Harlem, and by the grace of God, that was my foundation to understanding the art of storytelling and understanding that I'm blessed to be in a play.
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.
While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.
When I was at UCLA, the Harlem Globetrotters offered me a million dollars to come play for them. I turned it down because my education was just as important as playing ball.
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind,
And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.
I would say 'Harlem World' is a cult and at the end we're gonna have everybody believin'.
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 do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
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.
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.
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!
I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
I don't think the arts would have been as meaningful to me if I hadn't grown up in Harlem.
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.
In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon was Sugar Ray Robinson.
