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Harlem is filled with moments of history.
I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
Where I'm from in Harlem, everybody look like a rapper.
Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him.
If there was a Harlem Globetrotters of rugby league, he’d be in it.
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
I'm just a Harlem dude that can rap, and people dig my style and persona.
Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.
We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.
You cannot mention Harlem Heat without mentioning Sherri Martel at the same time.
You white folks see UFOs in your dreams. You don't hear about Martians in Harlem.
I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
As long as black people preserve their culture in Harlem, Harlem will always be alive.
I'm the only tenured black faculty in the sciences at Columbia, in the middle of Harlem.
Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes.
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind, And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
I do remember the numbers runners, I do remember the poverty and bread lines. Harlem stays with you forever.
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.
I always say that Sheri Martell was that one thing that put Harlem Heat on the map, made us a legitimate tag team.
I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
Spanish Harlem is like every ghetto in America. There's every distraction possible. To make it up out of there is really a task itself.
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 in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.
In Harlem, I got all my black friends. But when I go downtown, I got black, white, Asian, Indian friends. There's no borders, no barriers.
I was always a funny person. I thought I would play some good ball, and the Harlem Globetrotters would see me, and that would be it - fame.
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 feel like 'Harlem River' was me putting one foot out the door of New York, and 'Still Life' is between Point A and Point B. It's the grey area.
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.
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.
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.
Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.
In the 1940s, boxing was a mainstream sport and deeply ingrained the fabric of Harlem. Joe Louis ruled the world, but the local icon was Sugar Ray Robinson.
'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.
At first, Hendrix went and became a superstar in London, but if he walked past the Apollo in Harlem, no one would know who he was. I'm the hip-hop version of him.
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
I am a chef through and through. Everything I do - whether it is cooking for kids in Harlem or cooking in a fine dining establishment - all my days are consumed by food.
It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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.
I like musk and oud in a really, really delicate way. Because sometimes, if there's too much oud, it just smells like you're in the back of a cab in Harlem and I can't do it.
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.
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.
Black History Month could focus less on slavery and civil rights and more on the Harlem Renaissance and everything we have achieved. I want to know about the whole black experience.