Harlem

1 Malcolm X followers had been canvassing with growing anxiety for a Harlem church that would accept the Saturday funeral.

2 I really have hustler friends and jazz musician friends—I’m becoming part of the two corners of Harlem that fascinate me most.

3 There I was back in Harlem’s streets among all the rest of the hustlers.

4 At seven-thirty Brother Jack and some of the others picked me up and we shot up to Harlem in a taxi.

5 Every layover night in Harlem, I ran and explored new places.

6 “There's Conjurors, too, in Harlem and Brooklyn. That's what Papa says.”

7 Harlem had wonderful rooftops, and sometimes I would take the stairs to ours to sit near the edge overlooking Morningside Avenue and read.

8 He might, he knew, for he was a member of the branch in Harlem and was entitled to take books from any library in the city.

9 When I was a little kid, Spanish Harlem was different.

10 A Harlem madam I’d come to know—through having done a friend of hers a favor—introduced me to a special facet of the Harlem night world, something which the riot had only interrupted.

11 Others moved into the few spaces available at Harlem Valley, a former state mental hospital about forty-five minutes from Sing Sing that was now used to house correction officers.

12 Killens, the author of Youngblood, And Then We Heard the Thunder, and other novels, also brought me into the Harlem Writer’s Guild, an organization of black writers.

13 There wasn’t any ice to skate on in Harlem, so I gave up following hockey.

14 She visits us here in Harlem once a month or so, spending a couple of nights on the sofa bed in Mom's office.

15 Bodega looked around and took a deep breath as if he were smelling a rose rather than Spanish Harlem air.

16 Children playing leap frog in a Harlem street, ca.

孩子在玩的飞跃青蛙在哈勒姆街, 长约.

17 The following week my sister Jack called Mommy from her apartment in Harlem.

18 Even the white people who came to Harlem were colorful.

19 If Harlem was a human body, then 125th would be its pumping heart, throbbing all the time.

20 The park, I would learn later, was the western edge of Harlem.