It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'

- Gary Vaynerchuk

I've dated interracially a lot. I grew up in Harlem, so I've dated Latins, Dominican, Guyanese, Cuban, black, white.

- Mekhi Phifer

Harlem is a very family-oriented neighborhood, and it always has been.

- Marcia Gay Harden

I grew up in Harlem Grant projects, and I didn't have a whole lot then. I've always been good about only getting what I need, not what I want. Just because someone else has something, I don't feel the need to.

- Keith Sweat

I'm from the burbs. I've been in the hood, but I don't live there. I have lived in the hood, but I don't live there anymore. I lived in Harlem, and that was crazy, even though Harlem is a lot nicer than it used to be.

- Jay Pharoah

I grew up on 135th Street. I grew up on the poor side of New York. I grew up in Harlem.

- John Catsimatidis

I went through various stages in my childhood, as we all do, various stages of obsessions with people and things. And I did. I wanted to be the first white Harlem Globetrotter.

- Johnny Depp

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.

- John McEnroe

I'm just a girl from Harlem who ended up in the right place at the right time.

- Gabourey Sidibe

It is important to have permanent safe spaces in Harlem.

- Geoffrey Canada

I had a little portable typewriter. I call it my Harlem Literary Fellowship.

- Amiri Baraka

I've always written about social concerns. My first book was about Spanish Harlem.

- Dan Wakefield

Harlem was an exciting place in the '50s. There were nightclubs that, as a student of Columbia, you dashed off to. The community seemed very viable still.

- David Levering Lewis

I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.

- Daniel Boulud

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

Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.

- Debbie Allen

Living at the YMCA in Harlem dramatically broadened my view of the world.

- Constance Baker Motley

We don't windsurf in Harlem.

- Charles B. Rangel

We can't have Harlem become one borough for the rich.

- Charles B. Rangel

For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin' down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I'm from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds.

- ASAP Rocky