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“Manhattan crowds, with their turbulent musical chorus! Manhattan faces and eyes forever for me.”

Eye Faces Forever New York Musical Crowds Manhattan Chorus

Book:Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

Source: Earth, My Likeness: Nature Poetry of Walt Whitman

“I’m not doing anything wrong, I’m not obstructing anyone’s access. When I have a crowd I make sure that the crowd makes room for people. I’m an artist who cares about the cultural fabric of New York City. I care about New York as a harbor for street culture - and I care about street culture as a base-level populist diffusion of ideas. And I believe in making those ideas accessible to everyone.”

People Believe Ideas Care Artist Culture I Believe Levels Rooms Cities Streets New York Crowds I Believe In Access New York City Fabric I Care Who Cares Harbors Populist Diffusion

Author:Kalan Sherrard

“Shooting in New York can be a problem... I had to walk through a crowd, come in the front door, and play the scene.”

Play Problem Walks Doors Fronts New York Scene Crowds Shooting Front Doors

Author:Richard Gere

“Thomas A. Edison was once reluctantly persuaded by his wife to attend one of the big social functions of the season in New York. At last the inventor managed to escape the crowd of people vying for his attention, and sat alone unnoticed in a corner. Edison kept looking at his watch with a resigned expression on his face. A friend edged near to him unnoticed and heard the inventor mutter to himself with a sigh, "If there were only a dog here!"”

People Ifs Bigs Lasts Faces Social Attention Watches Wife Heard Dog New York Expression Seasons Function Crowds Corners Sat Sigh Inventor Unnoticed Resigned

Author:Edmund Fuller

“It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.”

Facts Home Might Reading Alive Streets New York Walking Intellectual Library Folks Crowds Isolated Questioning Interrogation

Author:Cornel West

“When I first arrived (in New York), it seemed to me the most terrifying city in the world... all those big buildings. I remember walking on Broadway, looking up at this huge, mountainous place-and being so lonely. But things started to clear up when I met a few people on the street whom I'd met before-all of a sudden there got to be a certain familiarity about the place, and the terror kind of evaporated. There was a lot of playing going on, and the New Yorkers, of course, were a completely different crowd from what I'd known.”

“All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.”

Sky Minutes New York Crowds Curb Large Crowds

Book:The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

Source: The New American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind

“I think in New York we had respect and we would pretty much fill up the places where we went, but I never got the sense that we really were Number 1 here in New York among the Latin crowds.”

Thinking Numbers New York Crowds Latin

Author:Ruben Blades