Mekhi Phifer Quotes

I'm New York-born and raised.

I grew up in New York.

I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, according to the 1950 census. Something like ten thousand people lived in one city block.

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

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

It's a nice neighborhood, like the one I left. My home borough is Brooklyn and Queens.

Everybody came from somewhere here in New York.

I'm from Harlem.

Why 'Do Bronx'? Because I'm from the slums, those are my roots.

I love the Lower East Side.

I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.

I was born in L.A., but raised in New York.

I was born in New York and raised in South Florida, so I'm an East Coast girl.

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

I think the Lower East Side inspires me. That whole neighborhood, a lot of the people that I worked with, seeing what we've gone through in life, being given an opportunity to understand who I am; my identity, my culture, and my roots.

I grew up in the Bronx.

Well, let's put in this way, I grew up in West New York, New Jersey.

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

New York is the hometown I represent.

My parents are my biggest influences. My parents and my city. Brooklyn, New York, New York City, the community I grew up. I don't feel like I'm special in that. I feel like that's everybody.

I love Harlem, it's like a second home to me.

I live in Brooklyn.

Neighborhoods change. In some ways, it's part of the beauty of New York City. It's in a constant state of flux.

I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.

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