Harlem Quotes - Page 5

• When American liberals go to the UK they see the Tories as the Washington Generals, and they see the Labor Party as the Harlem Globetrotters, and they love that. Total power. Whether anything works or not is irrelevant. We work.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Party, Globetrotters, Labor

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.

  Lynne Stewart

  Jobs, Queens, Children

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Brett Morris

  Rugby League, Globetrotters, Ifs

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• I pass for a hypersensitive, reclusive neurotic, which I may well be, but I hope the year won't come when my anxieties and fatigue will destroy my love of this life, of all the things that inspire me--a line of music, a face in a Vermeer portrait, a character in an opera, or a model born in Harlem.

  Yves Saint Laurent

  Character, Years, Anxiety

  Yves Saint Laurent (1983). “Catalog of the Exhibition Held at the Costume”, p.22, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• The Negro and all things negroid had become a fad, and Harlem had become a shrine to which feverish pilgrimages were in order . . . Seventh Avenue was the gorge into which Harlem cliff dwellers crowded to promenade.

  Wallace Thurman

  Order, Gorges, Shrines

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• I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem.

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Color, Sound

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Althea Gibson

  Leadership, Sports, Wimbledon

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• Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.

  Dawoud Bey

  Race, Imagination, Community

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• We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Eight, Black

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• 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.

  Langston Hughes

  House, Police, Intolerance

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• As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.

  Langston Hughes

  New York, Long, Georgia

  Langston Hughes, Donna Sullivan Harper (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, p.41, University of Missouri Press

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• Eric Walrond, handsome, cosmopolitan, and beguilingly enigmatic, may have been the most promising literary talent of the Harlem Renaissance.... James Davis's finely written, beautifully paced Eric Walrond is a major biography of a fascinating figure.

  David Levering Lewis

  Eric, Renaissance, May

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• 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.

  James A. Baldwin

  Animal, Invincible, Squalor

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• 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.

  Hari Kunzru

  Party, Night, Evening

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• I'm not guilty. You're the one that's guilty. The lawmakers, the politicians, the Colombian drug lords, all you who lobby against making drugs legal. Just like you did with alcohol during Prohibition. You're the one who's guilty. I mean, c'mon, let's kick the ballistics here: ain't no Uzi's made in Harlem. Not one of us in here owns a poppy field. This thing is bigger than Nino Brown. This is big business. This is the American way.

  Wesley Snipes

  Mean, Alcohol, Drug

  "Fictional character: Nino Brown". "New Jack City", 1991.

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• I especially like Duke Ellington jazz, which is a little more... I lived in New York for a while. I lived in Harlem for a bit, and I just fell in love with the idea of that era of New York, that jazz era, especially jazz in Harlem.

  Charlie Day

  New York, Ideas, Littles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Well, I couldn't play an instrument. I'd just stand up front and announce the numbers. They had me sing a little, but that was a horrible mistake. I can't carry a tune in a bucket. We played black theaters and nightclubs all over hell. One-nighters. Apollo Theater in Harlem and the Earle Theater in Philly - That was big time for blacks.

  Jesse Owens

  Sports, Mistake, Athlete

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• If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.

  Rita Dove

  Moving, Mean, Humanity

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 19, 2009.

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• 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.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Art, Kids, Somewhere Else

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• I look around me and I don’t see any rock’n’roll at the moment. Instead it’s all choreography and stylists and wigs and stuff. It’s like they’re afraid to let the music breathe. No one has their own identity like the Ronettes did back in the day. We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too. We didn’t have no dancers, we didn’t have no goddamn wigs.

  Ronnie Spector

  Sweet, Rocks, Dancer

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

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• I disagree with Muhammad. I'm against hate, anti-Semitism and homophobia. This is not a village of hate. It's a village of hope. Don't let midgets give us a bad name. There are still giants in Harlem, giants who will stand up for our children.

  Al Sharpton

  Children, Hate, Names

  First Million Youth March in Harlem, New York, September 05, 1998.

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• 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.

  Artie Lange

  Drug, Hug, Way

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• Before I started LimoLand, I mainly bought my clothes in Harlem, where I found clothing my size in fun colors. I still like to go there and see the vibrancy and colors of the neighborhood. I am also very influenced by the colors of my contemporary African and Japanese art collections.

  Jean Pigozzi

  Art, Fun, Color

  "Parking in the Meatpacking: Johnny Pigozzi". Interview with Colleen Nika, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2010.

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• One Harlem preacher likens us to the pink plastic spoons at Baskin Robbins: we give the world a foretaste of what lies ahead, the vision of the Biblical prophets. In a world gone astray we should be activity demonstrating here and now God's will for the planet.

  Philip Yancey

  Lying, Biblical, Giving

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

  George Preston Marshall

  Signing, Globetrotters

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