Polo G Quotes

There's a lot about New York that is unique, and there's always a culture and a subculture going on everywhere.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

It is not the walls that make the city, but the people who live within them.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

I respond to the sound of London being spoken - to the sound of London.

I hate going out in Brighton now. It's different in London. People respect you more there.

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.

There's something about Brooklyn that reminds me of Toronto. I think because it's so community-minded.

I've lived my entire life in New York, and it informs everything.

In New York you can just walk out and be among people. You're on the subway among people, you go to cafes, you can talk to people.

I think there is something about coming to a city to work that puts you in touch with it in a different way.

Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

When you live in New York, one of two things happen - you either become a New Yorker, or you feel more like the place you came from.

Paris was a melting pot.

New York is a place where people have strong convictions.

I wrote a book of essays about New York called 'The Colossus of New York,' but it's not about - you know, when I'm writing about rush hour or Central Park, it's not a black Central Park, it's just Central Park, and it's not a black rush hour, it's just rush hour.

You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.

The more time you spend in London, the more you become a Londoner.

I would describe Los Angeles as actually not having taste. In New York, there's taste. But you have to remember that taste is censorship. It's a form of restriction.

Commuters give the city its tidal restlessness, natives give it solidity and continuity, but the settlers give it passion.

Tell me about a person's family, friends, and community, and I'll tell you what his opinions are.

As you withdraw energy from the city, you are also giving energy back. People are noticing you. You're doing something, you're there, the species around you absorb your presence into it, and you become part of this animate entity called the city.

It may sound weird, but I don't really look for culture, particularly in an American city.

Living in cities is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art, of style, to describe the peculiar relationship between man and material that exists in the continual creative play of urban living. The city as we imagine it, then, soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, and nightmare, is as real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate on maps in statistics, in monographs on urban sociology and demography and architecture.

New York is the only real city-city.