Quotes About Harlem

Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.

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

As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.

Within a year, he had discovered it: Harlem, in particular 125th and 126th streets, the broad prospects lined with shops and row houses. "Nearly all of Harlem was for sale," Henry remembered. Block after block of the stone and brick houses built a decade earlier had passed to mortgagees, while those who owned the houses were "thoroughly discouraged and could see little hope in the future.

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.

I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.'

I used to walk in the burnt up Harlem of the '80s, and I'd look at brownstones that were dilapidated or apartment buildings, thinking 'Whoever designed this and built this did not want it to look like this.' So, I used to visualize one day being able to contribute and build in Harlem.

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

I've played with jazz and toyed with it when I used to live near the St. Nicholas Pub in Harlem.

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.

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.

To me, Harlem is one of the most important places on the earth, particularly when it comes to talking about African Americans.

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

It turned out Juicy's place took the prize: a mansion in Westchester County. He'd once muttered "north of Harlem"—probably trying to maintain his street cred. Which was imaginary. He lived in a ten-bedroom house in Rye.

his original manuscript of Cotton Comes to Harlem. Unfortunately, he left it behind on his return journey at the Athens

I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

In several of the apartments the women tenants were prostitutes. The minority were in some other racket or hustle—boosters, numbers runners, or dope-peddlers—and I'd guess that everyone who lived in the house used dope of some kind. This shouldn't reflect too badly on that particular building, because almost everyone in Harlem needed some kind of hustle to survive, and needed to stay high in some way to forget what they had to do to survive.

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.

I always wanted to do something I knew I could love to wake up and do every day, and rap was just second nature to me, growing up in Harlem. I never really had to try.

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

Evictions used to be rare in this country. They used to draw crowds. There are scenes in literature where you can come upon an eviction - like, in 'Invisible Man' there's the famous eviction scene in Harlem, and people are gathered around, and they move the family back in.

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 came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very poor, gave me up to two wonderful people, my foster parents.