Quotes About Harlem

I grew up in Harlem. My grandmother was one of the best cooks around, but the first thing she did on Sunday mornings when she started cooking a daylong meal was to take a big block of lard from the back of the refrigerator and throw it into the pan. I know how Hispanics buy their food, and it is not always nutritious.

A lot of creativity coming from the east side of Harlem. It really built my character and who I am.

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

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

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.

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

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

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.

Being in Harlem on the night of Barack Obama's election was extraordinary. It was the best street party I have ever gone to, and it felt like the period of American history which began with slavery had ended that evening.

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

Dance Theatre of Harlem has done a lot of good things well, a lot of good things badly, and a lot of bad things - it doesn't matter how.

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

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

I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

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

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

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

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

I don't know who I would be if I weren't this child from Harlem, this woman from Harlem. It's in me so deep.

In Harlem, Facebook was big. Kids would make Facebook 'families,' where they would change their last name on Facebook and have the same last name as their friends. I had this girl I was talking to, and she changed her last name to West, so I changed mine to West, too. It wasn't until later that I took the 't' off.

I'm from Harlem.