Harlem Quotes - Page 2

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

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Stars, Kids

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• Liberals believe that crime is inextricably linked with poverty. In reality, most poor people never resort to crime, and some wealthy people commit evil acts to enrich themselves further. Harlem, East Los Angeles, the South side of Chicago are not the poorest communities in the United States. According to a new U.S. Bureau of the Census report, the poorest communities are Shannon County, South Dakota, followed by Starr, Texas, and Tunica, Mississippi. Have you ever heard of these residents rioting to protest their living conditions?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Mean, Ghetto, People

  Source: www.theatlantic.com

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• I'm one of the people who believes that our losses were greater than our gains. Because before the Civil Rights movement we had entrepreneurship in the black community. Right now, in Harlem, if I wanted to get a shoe repaired, I would have a hard time finding a black shoe repairman. On near about every third corner, you could find a decent black barber, decent black laundry, had restaurants in the neighborhood that were open 24 hours. The food was good at 3 o'clock in the morning as at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Morning, Believe, Loss

  Source: www.ourtimepress.com

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• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Appreciation, Taken, Athlete

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• The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Real, Taken

  Source: nyx.uky.edu

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• 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.

  Colin Powell

  School, Army, College

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• 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.

  John McEnroe

  Brother, New York, Kids

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• 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.

  James de la Vega

  Mean, Pride, People

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• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

  Erik Estrada

  Couple, Hands, Years

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• 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.

  Brownie McGhee

  New York, Years, Ukulele

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

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Home, Spanish Harlem

  "Ronnie's spectre" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• Any kid that feels like they don't have any kind of future, whether they're on a street corner in Harlem or in a little town in Kansas where nothing happens, it's all out there for them. They can do whatever they dream or wish or see on television, or read about in the papers.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Kids, Kansas

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• 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.

  Richard Carmona

  Morning, Block, Sunday

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• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Racism, Political

  "The Black Man Speaks" l. 1 (1943)

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• An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Money, Hunger And Poverty, Important

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• You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Issues, Environmental

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• 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.

  Chester Himes

  Real, Book, Men

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.

  Queen Latifah

  New York, White, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

  ASAP Rocky

  Growing Up, East, Downtown

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• If I go up to Harlem or down to Sixth Street, and I'm not dressed up or I'm not wearing my jewelry, then the people feel I'm talking down to them. People expect to see Mrs. Astor, not some dowdy old lady, and I don't intend to disappoint.

  Brooke Astor

  Talking, People, Jewelry

  "Brooke Astor, 105, First Lady of Philanthropy, Dies" by Marilyn Berger, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2007.

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• One of my first role models was Eugene Lang, a wealthy businessman who went back to his elementary school in East Harlem and addressed the sixth-grade class. He looked out at that sea of faces and said, "If any of you wants to go to college, I will pay for it." When I read that, I burst into tears. It was so generous and so basic. Not fluffy. I can't understand why we scrimp on education and shortchange our kids. Why would the citizenry do that to the people who are going to inherit its republic?

  Bette Midler

  Kids, School, College

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• As a kid growing up and seeing so much strife taking place in society, and particularly on Blacks and people of color, I had an opportunity as a young man to witness the change that was taking place in Harlem, the exodus of white folks leaving Harlem, which I thought was a very cohesive situation. But they felt that they needed to leave.

  John Carlos

  Growing Up, Kids, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Happiness, Inspiring, Fear

  Zora Neale Hurston (2010). “Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography”, p.38, Harper Collins

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• Once, when we were playing at the Apollo Theater, Holiday was working a block away at the Harlem Opera House. Some of us went over between shows to catch her, and afterwards we went backstage. I did something then, and I still don't know if it was the right thing to do—I asked her for her autograph.

  Ella Fitzgerald

  Block, Holiday, House

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