Claude Brown Quotes

• For where does one run to when he's already in the promised land?

  Claude Brown

  Running, Land, Doe

  Manchild in the Promised Land foreword (1965)

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• 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.

  Claude Brown

  Thinking, Our Generation, Generations

  Claude Brown, Nathan McCall (2012). “Manchild in the Promised Land”, p.394, Simon and Schuster

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• The language of soul. . . possesses a pronounced lyrical quality which is frequently incompatible to any music other than that ceaseless and relentlessly driving rhythm that flows from poignantly spent ideas.

  Claude Brown

  Ideas, Soul, Quality

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• I didn't know anything until December 2004 when I went to purchase a vehicle and was told there was a foreclosure on my credit and I wouldn't be able to get the car. I've still got a red flag on my credit.

  Claude Brown

  Red Flags, Car, Credit

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