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The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time... RABINDRANATH TAGORE
I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book. MOHSIN HAMID
Voices of the Harlem Renaissance ZORA NEALE HURSTON I had nothing to do with it, ... It's not a Taj Mahal by any means. It's a standard building.
TOM LEIGHTON
The best of humanity's recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories ... ABERJHANI
[The Freedom of Information Act is] the Taj Mahal of the Doctrine of Unanticipated Consequences, the... ANTONIN SCALIA We didn't want to give the appearance that we were building a Taj Mahal. We want it to be a function...
BILL MOORE Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature writ...
DARRYL PINCKNEY It can be exhausting eating a meal cooked by a man. With a woman, it's, Ho hum, pass the beans. A gu...
DEB CALETTI I don't need the credits for playing the blues and paying the dues. I've already done it. Th...
TAJ MAHAL I see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a so...
TAJ MAHAL I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'...
TAJ MAHAL I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
TAJ MAHAL More and more people are finally realizing that in the heart of America, there's all this incred...
TAJ MAHAL In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice peo...
TAJ MAHAL Music is like the soul of the planet.
TAJ MAHAL Naw, it - it never stops, man... You gotta be doing what you're supposed to be doing - whenever,...
TAJ MAHAL I'm always cracking up when I hear what people think I should be doing.
TAJ MAHAL I'm perceived as someone who goes out and searches for new music, but it was all present in my h...
TAJ MAHAL It's just like heirloom tomatoes; this is heirloom music. We used to have all kinds of diversity...
TAJ MAHAL Very old music is, like, 11th century in my mind. That's very old.
TAJ MAHAL The blues is played everywhere. There's no place I've been where they don't have blues o...
TAJ MAHAL I pretty much move around wherever I like.
TAJ MAHAL What you have to understand is that blues... it's in a line from the oldest forms of African mus...
TAJ MAHAL If what you're talking about is seeing someone perform, then I'll have to say that in the rh...
TAJ MAHAL I wanted to explore the connections between different kinds of music.
TAJ MAHAL What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.
TAJ MAHAL It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don&#...
TAJ MAHAL My mother was American, and my father was from the Caribbean, and there was a big open door into the...
TAJ MAHAL I'm old enough to chew my peas and corn without choking.
TAJ MAHAL I didn't want to fall into the trap of complacency.
TAJ MAHAL I'm doing exactly what I always wanted to do, and I still like what I can do musically.
TAJ MAHAL I've only been on MTV once as one of their 'Closet Classics,' with some bootleg footage ...
TAJ MAHAL We return to you, O earth, the things which you have given us willingly and most graciously; with ou...
TAJ MAHAL When I was 5 or 6, I was messing around with the piano, and I listened to everything from Chopin to ...
TAJ MAHAL The song of the blues, the song of the music, was something a lot of people missed out on. They thou...
TAJ MAHAL Particularly with the blues, it's not just about bad times. It's about the healing spirit.
TAJ MAHAL I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to c...
TAJ MAHAL It's pretty exciting. An honorary doctorate of the arts. It doesn't get any better.
TAJ MAHAL
I wouldn't mind spending six months a year having a private jet take me around the world to visi... MEGALYN ECHIKUNWOKE As one who loves literature, art, music and history, I've been deeply rooted in the Harlem Renaissan...
DEBBIE ALLEN My family were Conservative Jews. My parents were both born in this country, but my father grew up o...
NORMAN LLOYD
I came to Harlem from West Virginia when I was three, after my mother died. My father, who was very ... WALTER DEAN MYERS My parents were missionaries - I was born in the States but I grew up in Brazil.
ARTO LINDSAY
My mom grew up in Idaho, went to Brigham Young University: they're very Molly Mormon. And my fat... ELIZA DUSHKU
I grew up cursing a lot. It felt natural. My parents told me to stop. ADAM SANDLER My parents emigrated here when I was 5, so this is the city I grew up in.
ARJUN SABLOK We would go down to Riverside, California, which is very poor now, but that's where my grandfath...
GRETA GERWIG
I grew up without a lot of money and my parents grew up with far less money. And that's kept me ... ADRIEN BRODY
Rubbish. The Taj Mahal is only a hundred eighty-six square feet. This house has twenty-five thousand... MICHELLE HODKIN I grew up kind of self-supported, that kind of environment, because my parents both worked for airli...
T. J. PERKINS When I grew up in Pittsburgh in my parents' restaurant, I was almost like a country bumpkin.
MING-NA WEN I grew up listening to most of my parents' music like The Beatles and ABBA and all that stuff.
TAMMIN SURSOK
District Six was a hell of a place. ... It was comparable with the old Harlem of the Harlem Renaissa... HUGH MASEKELA
I grew up in the once segregated South. I experienced forced integration during my formative school ... DONNA BRAZILE
I grew up in a Christian home with amazing parents. ALLYSON FELIX Both my parents are chefs... I grew up in a restaurant and was always surrounded by cooks. I love fo...
MING-NA WEN
I grew up in the large house and the larger garden of my parents in Altenberg. They were supremely t... KONRAD LORENZ Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family a...
CALLUM KEITH RENNIE As a child, I was spoilt by my parents as an only son. They indulged my every whim, and I grew up in...
ASIF ALI ZARDARI It is good to recall that three centuries ago, around the year 1660, two of the greatest monuments o...
ABDUS SALAM I grew up a chubby girl. I had two brothers. My parents loved us, they just fed us whatever we wante...
MEGHAN TRAINOR I'm a product of public housing. My parents grew up poor, but their dream was to own a home.
GREGORY MEEKS You’re still in love with her. She makes you want to live life. Personally, and this is just me, m...
KARINA HALLE
I grew up around a lot of Rumi, Hafez and Omar Khayyam books. My parents in Kabul had all the volume... KHALED HOSSEINI I grew up in a Caribbean family household, so the parents are always right. My father smacked me up ...
WYCLEF JEAN I've got the best parents you could ever ask for. My parents are from New Jersey, and they met i...
KING TUFF
I grew up in Birmingham, but my parents are originally from Barbados. My dad, Romeo, was a long-dist... DAVID HAREWOOD I grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, where my parents raised German shepherds - we had about 30 dogs...
TORY BURCH
It was a pretty rough neighborhood where I grew up The really tough places were over around Third Av... NORMAN ROCKWELL
My mother birthed three children and she adopted myself and another African-American son. My adoptiv... MICHAEL FRANTI Not much was really invented during the Renaissance, if you don't count modern civilization.
P. J. O'ROURKE My parents owned a plants nursery. We all grew up growing things and planting things and selling thi...
JACK DANGERMOND I'm very careful with money - both my parents were very sensible with it and I grew up to become...
MURRAY WALKER
I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not ex... CAMILA ALVES
Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I... DANIEL RADCLIFFE As a child, I grew up the son of German immigrant parents, so I grew up being teased and called '...
PETER MORGAN
I grew up mostly in Germany, but my favorite summer trip was driving from North Carolina to Texas in... MICHAEL STRAHAN I know that anthrax is a huge problem, up in, for example, Harlem, where I've done some work with th...
BILL WELD
I grew up in Harlem, a block away from what was then the most crowded block in New York City, accord... SAMUEL R. DELANY I grew up studying ballet; I grew up honing my craft.
JANICE DICKINSON My parents had a house on the Jersey shore - I grew up right there, going down there every summer an...
JACK ANTONOFF
When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That'... KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR and just keep going right up to Harlem.
GREGORY MILLS
I really grew my own fan base. I started posting videos on YouTube with the help of my parents. TORI KELLY I'm always interested to meet my friends' parents, or who they were raised by. Where they gr...
EMILY BETT RICKARDS
I grew up in a Chinese family where the parents' No. 1 priority is the kids' education. WEILI DAI I grew up with classical music blasting in my parents' living room and my older brother's pr...
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME
My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe... JUDITH BUTLER One of my sisters is physically and mentally handicapped. She took a lot of my parents' attentio...
ALEX KINGSTON
The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture ... ABERJHANI
Whether we consider hip-hop as an evolved manifestation of the Harlem Renaissance or something compl... ABERJHANI I grew up in Brooklyn, and my parents were Holocaust survivors, so they never taught me anything abo...
LOUIE SCHWARTZBERG
A lot of my personality was informed by feeling very different in the world I grew up in, feeling th... JHUMPA LAHIRI
My parents, of Belgian-German extraction, were Belgian nationals who had taken refuge in England dur... CHRISTIAN DE DUVE
I went to a restaurant that serves "breakfast at any time" so I ordered French toast during the Rena... STEVEN WRIGHT
I love cooking. It's one of my favorite things to do. To share my parents' recipes that I gr... LANCE BASS I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they u...
VING RHAMES I grew up believing that my parents helped change the world. I was so in awe of them, and I wondered...
TANANARIVE DUE I grew up in Harlem in New York, very rough, urban environment, and so what I found is that, if I ca...
VING RHAMES
