Harlem Quotes - Page 2

• Debes entender que como niño de color en aquellos días, los Harlem Globetrotters eran como ser estrellas de cine.

  Wilt Chamberlain

  Basketball, Stars, Kids

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• Los liberales creen que la delincuencia está inextricablemente ligada a la pobreza. En realidad, la mayoría de los pobres nunca recurren a la delincuencia, y algunos ricos cometen actos perversos para enriquecerse aún más. Harlem, el este de Los Ángeles o el sur de Chicago no son las comunidades más pobres de Estados Unidos. Según un nuevo informe de la Oficina del Censo de Estados Unidos, las comunidades más pobres son el condado de Shannon, en Dakota del Sur, seguido de Starr, en Texas, y Tunica, en Mississippi. ¿Has oído alguna vez que estos residentes se hayan amotinado para protestar por sus condiciones de vida?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Life, Believe, Reality

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• Mucha gente de Harlem nunca sale de Harlem. Quiero decir que ni siquiera han estado nunca en el centro. Y puedes ver cómo esta amargura puede acumularse. Aquí ves a gente hacinada en guetos y tugurios sin esperanza. No ven salida.

  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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• Cuando tenía 17 años, trabajé en un programa de mentores en Harlem destinado a mejorar la comunidad. Fue entonces cuando empecé a apreciar el Renacimiento de Harlem, una época en la que los afroamericanos adquirieron protagonismo en la cultura estadounidense. Por primera vez se les tomaba en serio como artistas, músicos, escritores, atletas y pensadores políticos.

  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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• No he visto a un jugador profesional salir de New York en más de 20 años, desde que salió mi hermano Patrick. Blake pasó unos años en Harlem, pero se mudó a Connecticut cuando era niño.

  John McEnroe

  Hermano, New York, Niños

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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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• Llevé a Sonny a Harlem y empezamos a tocar en la calle en New York. Lo hicimos durante tres o cuatro años y sobrevivimos. Volvimos a las calles.

  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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• Cualquier niño que sienta que no tiene ningún tipo de futuro, ya esté en una esquina de Harlem o en un pueblecito de Kansas donde no pasa nada, lo tiene todo ahí fuera. Pueden hacer cualquier cosa que sueñen o deseen o vean en la televisión, o lean en los periódicos.

  James Brolin

  Sueño, Niños, 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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• Lo juro por el Señor, todavía no puedo ver, por qué la Democracia significa, todo el mundo menos yo.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Racism, Political

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

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• No se puede alcanzar la seguridad medioambiental y el desarrollo humano sin abordar las cuestiones básicas de la salud y la nutrición.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Health, Issues, Environmental

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• Una importante palanca para una acción sostenida en la lucha contra la pobreza y la reducción del hambre es el dinero.

  Gro Harlem Brundtland

  Money, Hunger And Poverty, Important

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• El Harlem de mis libros nunca pretendió ser real; nunca lo llamé real; sólo quería arrebatárselo al hombre blanco aunque sólo fuera en mis libros.

  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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• Si voy a Harlem o a la calle Sexta y no voy bien vestida o no llevo mis joyas, la gente siente que les estoy hablando con desprecio. La gente espera ver a la Sra. Astor, no a una vieja desaliñada, y no pretendo decepcionarla.

  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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• Coge la escoba de la ira y ahuyenta a la bestia del miedo.

  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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