Harlem Quotes
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Harlem Quotes & Sayings
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The burden of disease falls on the poor.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
I was a kid who liked art and theater and dance and music, but if you lived in Harlem, high culture was somewhere else, and it wasn't black.
— Samuel R. Delany
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Sleep with him like that, so we were both just small, barely noticed punctuation in the huge book of life.
— Harlem Dae
It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.
— Geoffrey Canada
We don't windsurf in Harlem.
— Charles B. Rangel
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
— Debbie Allen
Is sending the Harlem Globetrotters and Dennis Rodman to the DPRK strange? In a word, yes,
— Dennis Rodman
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
— Sammy Davis Jr.
A cigarette is the only consumer product which when used as directed kills its consumer.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
I wasn't quite sure how I felt about a messy woman.
— Harlem Dae
This double burden of disease is rapidly putting a serious brake on the development efforts of many countries.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.
— Charles B. Rangel
With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Harlem is a stage. It's like its own planet, from the way we dress to the swag in the way we walk and talk.
— Teyana Taylor
Health is the core of human development.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Ghetto was from Newark and Spazo was from the Polo Grounds in Harlem. Ghetto's family lived in Harlem.
— Dion Perkins
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
— Ronnie Spector
The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
— Chester Himes
Naturally, this country can't stand truth.
— Lewis H. Michaux
This is a historic moment in global public health, demonstrating the international will to tackle a threat to health head on.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Investing in health will produce enormous benefits.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Women's health is one of WHO's highest priorities.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
And Alpo ordered guys to slaughter guys, and the whole Harlem was in tears when Rich Porter died.
— Cam'ron
And there she went, spoiling a moment. As usual.
— Harlem Dae
This love business, so difficult on the emotions yet so joyous to experience. I liked and hated it in equal measure.
— Harlem Dae
I do not know of any environmental group in any country that does not view its government as an adversary.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
We have seen SARS stopped dead in its tracks.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Women power is a formidable force.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.
— John Catsimatidis
Cancers of all types among women are increasing.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.
— Constance Baker Motley
Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.
— Marcia Gay Harden
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.
— Christian Scott
Osteoporosis, as the third threat, is particularly attributable to women's physiology.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
We'll start signing Negroes when the Harlem Globetrotters start signing whites.
— George Preston Marshall
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in women.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Never have so many had such broad and advanced access to health care. But never have so many been denied access to health.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
As long as what is is-and Georgia is Georgia-I will take Harlem for mine. At least, if trouble comes, I will have my own window to shoot from.
— Langston Hughes
You can never tell what's in a woman's mind,And if she's from Harlem, there's no use o' tryin — William Christopher Handy
Call them from their houses, and teach them to dream.
— Jean Toomer
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.
— Robert Gottlieb
The world has white people and black people in it. Even in Harlem.
— Angela Bassett
Hurry, get on board, it's comin', listen to those rails a-thrumming all aboard. Get on the "A" train, soon you will be on Sugar Hill in Harlem.
— Duke Ellington
To change societies you need to organize with others who share your views.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
I have repeatedly stressed that we have the knowledge to reduce hunger and poverty. — Gro Harlem Brundtland
When public and private sectors combine intellectual and other resources, more can be achieved.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
— Daniel Boulud
From 143rd Street in Harlem to the center court at Wimbledon is about as far as one can travel.
— Althea Gibson
This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat ... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
The greatest acts in colored show business had long made Harlem their home and favorite stamping ground.
— Ethel Waters
The people in his Harlem did not speak, they sang their way through conversations and disagreements,
— Bernice L. McFadden
An important lever for sustained action in tackling poverty and reducing hunger is money.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
Harlem sleeps late.
— Jacob M. Appel
East Harlem accent:
— R.J. Palacio
I think there's some great stuff coming. I do feel that. I think we have reached our Harlem Renaissance.
— Sandra Cisneros
I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.
— Mekhi Phifer
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
— Wilt Chamberlain
Whose little boy are you?
— James Baldwin
Everybody says 'Good Morning' in Harlem because it's true! And that's lovely.
— Marcia Gay Harden
Clinton said he feels safe in Harlem. It's the only place in the state Hillary is scared to look for him after dark.
— Craig Kilborn
There are other tracks that are more reliant upon the beat. Like nobody's going to sit there and play "Harlem Shake" on the guitar!
— Andrew Wyatt
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
— Gro Harlem Brundtland
You know why Madison Avenue advertising has never done well in Harlem? We're the only ones who know what it means to be Brand X.
— Dick Gregory
I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.
— Foxy Brown
