Spanish Harlem Quotes

• 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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• This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

  Justin Torres

  Beer, Men, Cities

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• As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.

  Erik Estrada

  Growing Up, Hot Headed, Trying

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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, Sides

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

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• I'd love to go to art school. I'd love to learn how to draw. I'd love to be fluent in Spanish. I'd like to be a brain surgeon.

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Art, School, Aggravation

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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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• Tras años de investigación, los científicos acaban de informar de que, efectivamente, hay arroz en el Harlem español. Una lengua llena y un cerebro vacío rara vez se separan.

  Francis Quarles

  Years, Brain, Research

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