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“The choices that you make will shape your life forever.”

Choices Decision Forever Shapes Decision Making Bronx Wasted Talent

Author:Francis Capra

“When you're a kid with artistic yearnings brought up in the Bronx, you don't get fed up too easily.”

Kids Artistic Feds Yearning Fed Up Bronx

Author:Daniel Libeskind

“God...my self in the Bronx always says that God has a funny sense of humor. ..He has a way of treating things, he deals with each individual soul delicately, tenderly, compassionately but he deals with groups of people [country] according to certain laws and he always observes those laws and that means the innocent are punished with the evil.”

People Way Mean Soul Self Country Law Certain Evil Individual Deals Groups Innocent Voting Sense Of Humor Bronx

Author:Malachi Martin

“When I started really singing I was 17, 18 years old. I used to go around trying to be a singer in the Bronx. My knees would shake but I learned by doing.”

Trying Years Used Singing Sight Singers Knees Shakes Bronx

Author:Dominic Chianese

“It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.”

Years Seems New York Consequence Towns Moved California Small Town Better Off Manhattan Detest Bronx American Writer

Author:H. L. Mencken

“But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.”

Heart My Heart Queens Uncles Grandparent Aunt Avenues Manhattan New Yorkers Bronx Aunts And Uncles

Author:Jason Alexander

“I was born here in the city, born in the Bronx. Son of a cop. One grandfather was a taxi driver; the other was a firefighter. New York is in my DNA.”

Born Cities New York Son Drivers Grandfather Cop Dna Taxi Firefighter Bronx

Author:Joe Lhota

“Since I do not believe that there should be different recommendations for people living in the Bronx and people living in Manhattan, I am uncomfortable making different recommendations for my patients in Boston and in Haiti.”

People Should Believe Different Patient Uncomfortable Boston Manhattan Haiti Recommendations Bronx

Author:Paul Farmer

“Melting pot Harlem-Harlem of honey and chocolate and caramel and rum and vinegar and lemon and lime and gall. Dusky dream Harlem rumbling into a nightmare tunnel where the subway from the Bronx keeps right on downtown.”

Dream New York Nightmare Chocolate Pot Honey Tunnels Melting Subway Lemons Downtown Harlem Bronx Vinegar Melting Pot Limes Rum Caramel

Book:Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

Source: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs

“I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.”

Country Age Father Born Moved Bronx

Author:Abel Ferrara

“I started off as a graffiti artist in the South Bronx. My tag name was 'Loco' because I would go crazy and tag anywhere I wanted, in the weirdest places.”

Wanted Artist Names Crazy South Tag Graffiti Bronx Graffiti Artist

Author:Swizz Beatz

“When I was growing up, there were so many things I thought were stylish. Jabo jeans, V Bombers, Clarks, Vikings, Nugget watches, Lee pants with the patches, leather hats - which I still wear now. All hip-hop stuff, all South Bronx stuff.”

Stills Stuff Watches Growing Up Growing South Hip Hop Hips Hats Hops Pants Jeans Patches Leather Vikings Stylish Bombers Bronx Nuggets

Author:Swizz Beatz