Samuel R. Delany Quotes

I'm from Harlem, born and raised there.

I grew up in an inner city neighborhood called the Benson Hurst section of Brooklyn, which was a very embracing, warm, family-type neighborhood.

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

I grew up in the Bronx.

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

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.

I live in Brooklyn.

I grew up in the Lower East Side of New York.

I grew up in the Bronx, but in Riverdale - not exactly an area of New York that's known for being rough and tumble.

I used to live in the Bronx, then I lived uptown on 106th St. and Broadway, and finally I moved to Harlem right before it became gentrified. I lived on 120th St. between Fifth and Lenox Aves. in a little brownstone. I knew the neighborhood was changing when they started putting trees in the middle of the block.

I grew up in New York City. And I lived in the Bronx in a place called Parkchester.

I used to live on Riverside Park in New York, on the Upper West Side.

I'm from Queensbridge. It's the largest housing project in New York. And growing up in Queens, it was different because I wasn't really experienced in traveling to the City. I never really got used to the City.

I'm from Harlem.

I was in Taiwan recently and was completely amazed by the density of population. It makes New York look like no one is out on the streets.

It seems to me, correct me if I'm wrong, that there are an awful lot of people in Manhattan. And it's getting worse.

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

I live in Brooklyn; I live in Clinton Hill. I love it there.

Certain parts are bad in every city, but Chicago is beautiful.

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.

I grew up in New York City: Harlem, New York. I played ball for probably two of the biggest amateur basketball organizations in the city.

New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.

I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.

Amazon's been around for 24 years, and now they're doing what any 24-year-old does: move to New York and gentrify a neighborhood.

I'm from the inner city of Buffalo.