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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.
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So you think that hip-hop had it's start out in Queensbridge, If you popped that junk up in the Bronx you might not live.
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I was born and raised in New York City, Manhattan, uptown.
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I love Manhattan.
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As far as Hip Hop Manhattan was after the Bronx.
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What would New York be without slavery?
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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.
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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.
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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.'
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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
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New York City is the place where people come to invent, reinvent, or find the room they need to be who they wish to be.
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Manhattan is where America began.
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I live in Harlem, New York City. I am unmarried. I like 'Tristan,' goat's milk, short novels, lyric poems, heat, simple folk, boats and bullfights; I dislike 'Aida,' parsnips, long novels, narrative poems, cold, pretentious folk, buses and bridges.
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I grew up in Manhattan on the Upper East Side.
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Harlem's Apollo is probably the most well-known music hall in the world.
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in Staten Island. It
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I wanted to hug them all. We belonged to each other somehow...But that sweet feeling hung on and I loved all of Harlem gently and didn't want to be Puerto Rican or anything else but my own rusty self.
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In Africa, you have no clean water, but you have good food options. In Harlem, everyone can shower and get fresh water, but you often have bad food options.
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We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place where the roaches and cockroaches were big enough to carry away small children.
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CLEARVIEW, QUEENS
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No city owns me, you know what I'm saying? I'm from New York, but no city owns me. Nobody can bottle up my sound and box me in. Yes, I am a rapper, but am I a New York rapper? No. I am from New York, I love New York to death, but I will not conform myself to one place, no.
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New York seems conducted by jazz, animated by it. It is essentially a city of rhythm.
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New York City is my playground.
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You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
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I'm blacked than midnight on Broadway and Myrtle
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New York is in my soul.
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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.
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New York is a place where the rich walk, the poor drive Cadillac's, and the beggars die of malnutrition with thousands of dollars hidden in their mattresses.
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East 103rd, New York, New York
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While I'm a New Yorker at heart, and 'Harlem Honey' runs through my veins, Atlanta - its awesome residents and glorious landscapes - has a special place in the hearts of my family and I.
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I was born in a Negro town.
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I knew I didn't want to come out in the 'New Yorker'; it just felt wrong. It needed an African conversation.
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Brownsville, having missed their road and wandered in the
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The roots of my music start from the ghetto.
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New York is like a disco, but without the music
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New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines.
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New York, New York, - a helluva town, The Bronx is up but the Battery is down.
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I'm a New York girl. I come out of New York theater.
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Manhattan ... capital of the 20th century, a city that has fascinated me for more than three decades.
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I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.
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I grew up in Manhattan, and now I live in Brooklyn.
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When a black Jacksonian looks about his home community, he sees a city of over 150,000, of which 40% is Negro, in which there is not a single Negro policeman or policewoman, school crossing guard, or fireman.
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Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
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I was brought up in this part of Detroit that they used to call the ghetto.
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People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there.
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the infinite Manhattan night.
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Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town
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In South Africa, success never presented the problems that it presents in New York. In New York, if you happen to be the flavor of the month, a lot of nonsense comes with it into your life.
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If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.
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Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
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We left my birthplace, Brooklyn, New York, in 1939 when I was 13. I enjoyed the ethnic variety and the interesting students in my public school, P.S. 134. The kids in my neighborhood were only competitive in games, although unfriendly gangs tended to define the limits of our neighborhood.
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You may discover that the very aspects which make it most unendurable are what gives New York its meaning. Its inconsistencies and anonymity, its seeming indifference to you and every other individual is really what makes it a safe haven for individuals everywhere (Maeve Brennan)
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New York - The city where the people from Oshkosh look at the people from Dubuque in the next theater seats and say These New Yorkers don't dress any better than we do.
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Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.
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In New York, we're always confined with spaces. Our restaurants are difficult to navigate as cooks and to operate. We fight against the buildings we run in New York.
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I like doing business in a black city.
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Now we just showin' and provin' that there's a ghetto everywhere you go.
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New York is unruly, tangled. The city woos first, then mangles, then pastes back together in a fresh, dazzling mosaic.
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We were in the heart of the ghetto in Chicago during the Depression, and every block - it was probably the biggest black ghetto in America - every block also is the spawning ground practically for every gangster, black and white, in America too.
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For 'The Journal of Finn Reardon,' I traveled to New York City and walked the streets where Finn and his friends would have lived, worked, and played. I visited the Tenement Museum on Orchard Street and toured an actual flat in which families like Finn's might have lived.
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I'm a creature of the New York City streets.
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I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York.
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In the Shadow of Slavery covers two and a half centuries of black life in New York City, and skillfully interweaves the categories of race and class as they affected the formation of African American identity. Leslie Harris has made a major contribution to our understanding of the black experience.
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In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets.
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New York City, city of exaggerations. Place of Herculean ascensions and perilous falls.
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Nothing dates one so dreadfully as to think someplace is uptown. At our age one must be watchful of these conversational gray hairs.
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New York makes even a rich man feel his unimportance. New York is cold, glittering, malign. The buildings dominate. There is a sort of atomic frenzy to the activity going on; the more furious the pace, the more diminished the spirit.
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I used to go to school in Manhattan with a bunch of the City Kids.
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New York is a fabled city, a fabulous city.
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I live in Brooklyn.
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The jazz boom was goin' on then so there was a lot happenin' in New York at that time.
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In the summer New York was the only place in which one could escape from New Yorkers ...
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I grew up in the Bronx. I'm into rap music.
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A wet dream in the mind of New York.
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Manhattan is basically this island in New York, where all the cool stuff is located.
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New York, home of the vivisectors of the mind, and of the mentally vivisected still to be reassembled, of those who live intact, habitually wondering about their states of sanity, and home of those whose minds have been dead, bearing the scars of resurrection.
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New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.
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Uptown living, you've got to call 911. Where I am, I am 911.
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Black New Yorkers' distressing personal accounts of poverty and unemployment, inadequate housing, white supremacy and state-sanctioned violence politicized St. Clair, leading her to become one of New York's staunchest yet most unlikely voices against urban inequity.
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Brooklyn has a bit of everything - some of the most beautiful things in America, and some of the most wretched, ugly, impoverished things.
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Growing up in Harlem, I had the chance to practice with a Negro League team. At fifteen, I was over six feet tall and a fair athlete, but my skills didn't come close to some of the players I saw.
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I am a New Yorker.
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Hip-hop is bigger than the South; hip-hop is bigger than New York.
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I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis.
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What's good in the hood?
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Finding creative and effective ways to simultaneously give back and economically empower people is something that is increasingly important. Not everyone can open a business and directly create jobs in the way that we have at Red Rooster Harlem.
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I traveled so much to dance that I feel a part of many places, but New York is where I spent most of my life and where my career has been - it's the place where I exist.
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Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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The separate water foundations, park benches, bathrooms and restaurants of the Jim Crow South startled me. These experiences motivated my lifelong study of the status of African Americans and the sources of improvement in that status.
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New York is a glorious place for clearing your head and finding inspiration. Every time you step outside, you live a dozen lives.
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Ghetto was from Newark and Spazo was from the Polo Grounds in Harlem. Ghetto's family lived in Harlem.
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In a blacked-out house, stripped of all comforts, it's easy to turn your anger outward, to attack this city he's lying at the center of, with its filth and its pollution and its oppression, but really, New York is the only thing that's never abandoned him.
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158 Lewis Avenue between Lafayette and Van Buren, that was back durin days of hangin' on my bed-stuy block
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I was raised on the streets, in hot, steamy Brooklyn, with stifled air.
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I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey. There was this tiny area of Summit where most of the black families lived. My parents and I lived in a duplex house on Williams Street.
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One of the great thing about New York is the neighborhood - you go for your walk in the morning and you know your dry cleaning lady, you know the guy in your coffee shop - that's your neighborhood and I love that.
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Three years ago, the white hope of the theatre. Today, a mug. That's New York for you. Puts you on a Christmas tree, and then - the alley.
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That is where a big part of the Old South is, on coffee tables in Greenwich Village.
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The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.