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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  (Lower East Side Quotes) In my mid-twenties, I said to myself: ‘I can’t perform anymore!’ I didn’t know what I wanted to do. I didn’t perform for a while, then ended up doing a one-woman show about Gilda Radner having cancer. It was called ‘Gilda Defying Gravity,’ and I did it on the Lower East Side. It was great; people really came out and supported me  (Lower East Side Quotes) For me, growing up in Harlem and then migrating down to SoHo and the Lower East Side and chillin’ down there and making that my stomping ground... That was a big thing, because I’m from Harlem, and downtown is more artsy and also more open-minded. So I got the best of both worlds  (Lower East Side Quotes) I’m a black lady from the Lower East Side of New York. Not a lot intimidates me  (Lower East Side Quotes) I moved to New York to work in theater, so my range of motion was really from where I lived - which was downtown, in the Lower East Side - to Midtown, where the theaters are. So I got to know New York, Midtown and south  (Lower East Side Quotes) I choose to be American, I choose to live in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, I choose to have Puerto Rican/Jewish neighbors, and I choose to maintain my Chinese identity.  (Lower East Side Quotes) Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life  (Lower East Side Quotes) I’m a weird, bald musician who makes records in his bedroom and lives in the Lower East Side  (Lower East Side Quotes) By the time I was in my early-twenties and was living there on the Lower East Side, I was so surrounded by tragedy that I think that inspired me to try to reflect it in the artwork  (Lower East Side Quotes)