“I'm a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me.” SidesBlackNew YorkEastIntimidatingEast Side Author:Ursula Burns
“Many believe that Hillary Clinton was channeling President Obama during her recent speech in New York City. She focused on equality, justice, and how hard it was for her growing up as a young black man in Hawaii.” MenBelieveHardYoungBlackPresidentJusticeCitiesGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkSpeechClintonFocusedNew York CityPresident ObamaHawaiiChanneling Author:Jimmy Fallon
“In the space of less than seven days, I attended a track meet in Boston, flew from there to Bowling Green for the National Jaycees, then to Rochester for the blind, Buffalo for another track meet, New York to shoot a film called The Black Athlete, Miami for Ford Motor Company, back up to New York for 45 minutes to deliver a speech, then into L. A. for another the same night.” FilmNightSportsBlackSpaceCompanyMinutesNew YorkSpeechBlindGreenSevenAthleteTrackBostonMotorFlewMiamiBowlingBuffaloSeven DaysRochesterFord Motor Author:Jesse Owens
“If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris.” IfsThinkingHas BeensAmericaCultureBlackNew YorkRapParisCould Have BeenRap MusicBlack America Author:Ice Cube
“I found a 1992 New York Times article:Bill Clinton playing golf at a club that he played at all of his adult life as governor, that didn't allow black membership! I guarantee most Americans don't know that.” KnowsFoundBlackNew YorkAdultsBillsGolfClintonClubsGuaranteesArticlesGovernorsNew York TimesMembershipPlaying Golf Author:Sean Hannity
“One teacher told me that my work belonged in the trash. That day I ran out of the classroom and ended up in the library, where there happened to be a black and white photography exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg's photographs of the streets of New York. The subject of his photos were exactly what I was painting about.” BlackWhiteTeacherHappenedStreetsSubjectsNew YorkPaintingPhotographyLibraryPhotographRanClassroomBlack And WhiteTrashExhibitionsBlack And White Photography Author:Jose Parla
“As a journalist, I never critiqued anyone. I never review books. I've never felt qualified as a musician to say whether someone is a good musician or a bad musician. What happens with Black writers and Black artists is that if you're critiqued, for example, by a Black historian who wants to get his name on the cover of "The New York Times," and he says something, like, wacky, well, he'll get his name on the cover of "The New York Times" and he might get tenure, and your career suffers.” IfsWantWellsBookMightHappensArtistSufferingNamesFeltBlackCareersNew YorkExampleMusicianJournalistReviewsHistorianQualifiedNew York TimesTenureWacky Author:James McBride
“My whole family was - we grew up in New York, but all my relatives and all my father and stepfather's family, they were all from the South. So I like that old Black voice, and I love the sort of old Black man with a corncob pipe, sitting there telling a whopper.” MenWholeFatherBlackVoiceNew YorkGrewGrew UpSittingSouthPipeWhole FamilyStepfathers Author:James McBride
“For me, Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' defines New York. Both New York and Manhattan Island should be in black in white! I always hear the soundtrack of Gershwin in my head every time I go over the Queensboro Bridge, or come in from JFK because of it!” ShouldBlackWhiteNew YorkBridgesIslandsManhattanWoodySoundtracksGershwin Author:Brian Cox
“The day before I left to fly in New York, I went in the ocean and was just lying on my black looking up at the sky, which was that Hawaii blue. Just that moment was worth the entire thing. The ocean is everything. It can heal you.” MomentsLyingLeftBlackSkyNew YorkOceanBlueHealThat MomentHawaii Author:Gavin Rossdale
“Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, he is certainly consistently more interesting than Steven Spielberg, Brian de Palma, Francis Ford Coppola or Woody Allen. Even a failure like Gangs of New York or a curiosity like The Aviator is more interesting and ambitious than Munich, The Black Dahlia or Scoop.” AmericaBlackInterestingNew YorkDirectorsCuriosityAmbitiousConsistentlyGangWoodyBrianHitchcockTitansAviatorMunichDahlias Author:Joe Queenan
“I got into DJ'ing because I started to listen to New York radio a lot. Obviously, I knew the stuff everybody knew, like Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, but I heard "Who Got the Props" by Black Moon, and I went up to this kid in my school with the Walkman on and was like, "What is this? You must tell me how I can get this now." Because there was no Shazam or googling lyrics.” I CanKidsSchoolStuffBlackEnemyBoysHeardNew YorkMoonRadioPropsDjsPublic Enemies Author:Mark Ronson
“I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.” MenWorldBelieveBlackNew YorkThreatFeministWinnerPrizePrincipalNew York TimesClique Author:Ishmael Reed
“Do you think that Gwendolyn Brooks would give an award to someone who hated Black women, the lie that was circulated throughout New York and reached all the way down to Martinique where I was a guest Professor? The lie was circulated by people who don't read my books.” PeopleThinkingWayGivingBookLyingBlackNew YorkHatedAwardsProfessorsGuestsBlack WomenBrooks Author:Ishmael Reed
“Richard Price got a million dollar advance on one fake film book based on a paragraph outline and is able to seduce gullible White reviewers who know less about ghetto life than he. The New York Times has devoted more space to Price's tourist, ghetto writing than to any Black writer in history.” KnowsWritingBookAbleFilmBlackSpaceWhiteMillionsNew YorkDollarsFakeDevotedMillion DollarsTouristsNew York TimesOutlinesGhettoParagraphSeducingReviewersGullible Author:Ishmael Reed
“I have a strong army I keep with me and we don't go out there looking for problems. A lot of people have this perception... but I don't have a superiority complex about me because I'm from New York or because I'm Peruvian/Black. I think some people get caught up in that stuff.” PeopleThinkingProblemStrongStuffBlackNew YorkPerceptionArmyComplexesCaughtSuperiorityCaught UpSuperiority ComplexPeruvians Author:Immortal Technique
“Fox News reported Thursday that Bill Clinton can't get into any of New York's better golf and country clubs. Not one member has been willing to sponsor him. So it's official, he really is America's first black president.” FirstsHas BeensCountryAmericaBlackPresidentNew YorkWillingMembersNewsBillsGolfClintonClubsOfficialsFoxesFox NewsSponsorsThursdayCountry Clubs Author:Argus Hamilton
“When you have the national narrative being "crack is awful and black people are using it," why go against that narrative when you want to get that publication in The New York Times or wherever? It encourages people to play right into it.” PeopleWantPlayBlackNew YorkAwfulNarrativeCracksBlack PeoplePublicationNew York Times Author:Carl Hart
“New York makes me swoony and in love. The New York of the 1880s was a place where black eye fixers did a brisk business and people were routinely killed for their shoes. But, the constant aspiration of the city never changes.” PeopleEyeBlackCitiesNew YorkConstantShoesAspirationNever ChangeBlack EyesFixers Author:Molly Crabapple
“There was [ in New York] - some of it was this perception of the Midwest that I realized in this multicultural city that - and I don't think it's as true as it was - but everyone was kind of like, what, are you Jewish? Are you Italian? What are you? You know, are you black? Are you da-da-da? Are you Puerto Rican? And so I ended up - my ethnic identity was Midwestern, was white bread. And so it informed a lot of my stand-up.” ThinkingKnowsKindBlackWhiteCitiesNew YorkIdentityPerceptionI RealizedBreadItalianMulticulturalMidwestWhite BreadEthnic Identity Author:Jim Gaffigan
“My first feature film was a movie called 'A Gunfight,' with Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Karen Black, Jane Alexander, Raf Vallone... It was shot in Santa Fe, Mexico, in 1970, and it was directed by Lamont Johnson. It was the first gig I did when I got to California from having done 'Hair' in New York on Broadway for a year. It was a Western, though! But that film was not a successful release.” YearsFirstsDoneFilmBlackSuccessfulNew YorkHairShotsWesternReleaseCaliforniaFeaturesCashMexicoBroadwayJaneSantaGigsJohnsonKirkGunfightsSanta FeRaf Author:Keith Carradine