The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
The riot isn't seen in the movie, but it is alluded to. He has this one speech that gives a great sense of texture and paints a picture of what was happening in Harlem then.
You must understand as a kid of color in those days, the Harlem Globetrotters were like being movie stars.
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.
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.
We had the skirts with the slits up the side, sort of tough, sort of Spanish Harlem cool, but sweet too.
I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me.
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.
He was a manager, one of the singers, I guess talent coordinator for the local talent in Harlem. His name was Lover Patterson. He was living right across the street from where my dad had his restaurant. I guess he saw a lot of kids come in, a lot of my buddies.
We don't windsurf in Harlem.
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts.
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.
I got Sonny up to Harlem, and we started street playin' in New York. We did that for three or four years and survived. We brought it back to the streets again.
As a Latino growing up in Spanish harlem, it's not easy trying not to be hot-headed.
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Avenue where it ran into the Harlem River, but we weren't far away.
I haven't seen a professional player come out of New York in over 20 years since my brother Patrick came out. Blake spent a few years in Harlem, but he moved to Connecticut when he was a kid.
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