Harlem Quotes

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The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.

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

You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.

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

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.

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.

All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.

I havent seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

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.

I want people to take pride in Spanish Harlem. These are people that everyone in the community could relate to... people who mean something special to us.

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.

We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.

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

In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.

Despite everything that Harlem did to our generation, I think it gave something to a few. It gave them a strength that couldn't be obtained anywhere else.

I majored in directing. However, I did spend some time at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, so I am somewhat well-versed in African Studies.

In Harlem, black was white. You had rights that could not be denied you; you had privileges, protected by law. And you had money. Everybody in Harlem had money. It was a land of plenty.

They [the police] learned something from them Harlem riots. They used to beat your head right in public, but now they only beat it after they get you down to the station house.

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.'

Hugs are great, but - better than drugs? Come on. Let me put it to you this way: I never drove to Harlem at 4 a.m. to get somebody to hug me.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

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.

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

And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

Harlem is filled with moments of history.

I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City.

We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.

The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.

As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.

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

What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.

I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

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.

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!

The one thing you'll notice when you're walking through Harlem is every single passing car is playing different music and there's also music that's being played out of windows.

In the invincible and indescribable squalor of Harlem ... I was tormented. I felt caged, like an animal. I wanted to escape. I felt if I did not get out I would slowly strangle.

You see a lot of Baptist churches in Harlem, you see a lot of the same kind of cuisine, the soul food - there's a lot of places that remind you of its southern roots.

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 Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water, but you often have bad food options.