Harlem Renaissance Renaissance Quotes

#1. I mean, not that I killed her just to get the car, or anything.

MaryJanice Davidson

#2. The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.

Aberjhani

#3. Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.

Jean Toomer

#4. 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

#5. What do we call our Harlem Renaissance? Maybe in the future, it won't be just Latino, maybe it'll be more multi-multi, because, you know, people are such fusions now, of so many different cultures.

Sandra Cisneros

#6. Whose little boy are you?

James Baldwin

#7. It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Clement Alexander Price

#8. Nothing is until it is and until then everything is possible.

Nicola Morgan

#9. Through the eclipse of large areas of the self, by repression and inhibition as well as by idealization and externalization, the individual loses sight of himself; he feels, if he does not actually become, like a shadow without weight and substance.

Karen Horney

#10. To the memory of Vincent Van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, El Greco, and many others who came before me as well as those who will come after. We are one. Thank you.

Luther E. Vann

#11. During the New Deal, people thought to be liberal was to reject socialism on one extreme and fascism on the other, and to preserve capitalism through regulation and a social safety net.

Noah Feldman

#12. After I'd been in college for a couple years I'd read Shakespeare and Frost and Chaucer and the poets of the Harlem Renaissance. I'd come to appreciate how gorgeous the English language could be. But most fantasy novels didn't seem to make the effort.

Patrick Rothfuss

#13. As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissance for many years.

Debbie Allen

#14. I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.

Sandra Cisneros

#15. The best thing for the inside of a man, is the outside of a horse.

R. F. Delderfield