Nuyorican Quotes & Sayings

This is definitely / for the brothers / who ain't here. — Willie Perdomo

I did sketch comedy with a troupe at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. — Selenis Leyva

These dreams
These empty dreams
from the make-believe bedrooms
their parents left them
are the after-effects
of television programs
about the ideal
white american family
with black maids
and latino janitors
who are well train
to make everyone
and their bill collectors
laugh at them
and the people they represent — Pedro Pietri

The Documents Project has actively collected documentation on both island-based Puerto Rican art as well as Nuyorican art in the United States through partnerships and researchers ceded at the University of Puerto Rico's museum in San Juan and Hunter College's Center for Puerto Rican Studies in New York City, respectively. — Mari Carmen Ramirez