Kool Moe Dee Quotes

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.

I never really thought of my neighborhood in South Philly as being a neighborhood; it was more a state of mind. For people who aren't familiar with those kinds of places, it's a whole different thing. Like, 42nd Street in New York City is a state of mind.

My background did not start with the East Side; it started with Greenwich Village, which is West Side.

I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.

All my best friends live downtown in New York City. I was made in Soho.

One of the things I love about 'Rubicon' is I really recognize the New York City that they're depicting in it, having lived here for 15 years.

Those who know New York City primarily through tourism or mass culture may think of us natives as possessing certain shared characteristics, not all of them flattering. But the true, volatile charisma of New York lies in how balkanised it is.

People don't know that New York really is just made up of a group of very small neighborhoods.

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

In New York, Kid Carter was pure vanilla for a city with stronger tastes.

But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker.

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

I love Brooklyn; it's a part of who you are.

I like how they are. I think they're great. And their communities are communities. I have a greater sense of community in New York than almost anywhere I've ever lived. Really, it's terrific.

I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.

When you grow up in the city, New York is so big that you can kind of stay in your own little corner of the city and think that that's it because you don't need anything. You don't have to venture out; you don't have to touch the boroughs. You can kind of stay in your neighborhood, and there's everything there.

New York City has always had more in common with Paris or London than with Cincinnati.

East Side, West Side, all around the town

I grew up in New York City, and I'm a city boy, born and bred.

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.

I grew up with Woody Allen and early Spike Lee movies in which New York was such a specific character. The city has a certain vibe and beat which really informs your entire existence.

There's no one New York. There's multiple New Yorks.

You'll see every kind of New Yorker in there. You really feel like you're in the belly of the beast when you're in Union Square.

I am a different person in NYC. My energy is way different. I just make sense here.