Home To Harlem Quotes

#1. I've been a staunch Republican.

Montel Williams

#2. I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

Foxy Brown

#3. We need to have as broad a range as possible, because life itself has that kind of range.

John Eaton

#4. Whether or not anybody had invented the category in his lifetime, Babe Ruth was surely the Greatest Living Yankee almost immediately upon lofting home runs at the Polo Grounds, allowing the Yankees to build their own palace across the Harlem River.

George Vecsey

#5. I've lived all over the world, but Harlem is very special to me, and when I decided to open a restaurant near my home, I didn't want it to be business as usual.

Marcus Samuelsson

#6. You really don't know a person until you spend some time in their panties.

Lois Greiman

#7. stupid people trying to manage me sends me into acute depression.

Tad Williams

#8. Little Dorrit that she had not seen Mr F.'s Aunt so full of life and character for weeks; that she would find it necessary to

Charles Dickens

#9. I worked at an old folks' home once in Harlem, and I was an activities volunteer. I used to do all these plays with the old people. I did 'The Wizard of Oz;' it was adapted. There was a guy there who played the harmonica, so we had an overture, and The Wizard was 96.

Tony Danza

#10. There is a bit of Hans Christian Andersen in every Dane.

Victor Borge

#11. As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien.

Gavin Bryars

#12. Jack the Orderly: I've come for your tv. You've been using too much juice. Another 10,000 kilowatts again this month. Beats me how an old, homicidal loony can use that much power.

Earl Mac Rauch

#13. I always felt that heroes were essentially dull. Villains were more exotic and could do more interesting things.

Jerry Robinson

#14. If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse.

Rumi

#15. I'm grateful for my health, glad I'm making people laugh, glad my wife still likes me after a lotta years, grateful my daughter is growing, glad I don't take myself too seriously, glad L.A. has Astro Burger, grateful to be coming home to Harlem soon. It's a gratitude list. It works.

David Alan Basche

#16. ... Harlem was home; was where we belonged; where we knew and were known in return; where we felt most alive; where, if need be, somebody had to take us in. Harlem defined us, claiming our consciousness and, I suspect, our unconsciousness. (Page 64)

Ossie Davis

#17. He couldn't say the words, had spent too long in Silence, but he'd learned other ways to speak. Taking the paperweight she'd knocked off her desk out of his pocket, he put it in her hands. It's fixed. As long as you don't mind more than a few scars.

Nalini Singh

#18. The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.

Ethel Waters