Fort Greene Dreams was a memoir written by a music and culture critic, journalist, and film maker named Nelson George. He was a man who achieved success overcoming life difficulties that presented to him on the way. He tells his story beginning when he moved to Fort Greene, Brooklyn from Queens, Jamaica. This moving was convenient for him because it took him off the stress of having to take long E and F train rides to the city. He use to live in Brooklyn before when he was a child but it was nothing like Fort Greene.  He was content with his new apartment because of how spacious it was.  He lived there from 1885 through 1992, which was the most important years of his life. Even thought Fort Greene was not in a good nor safe neighborhood  (in fact he experienced a police arresting a robber in his own backyard, and he got robed himself in his apartment) moving to this apartment never became a mistake in his life. For the contrary, he gained a lot of success by this decision. During this period he wrote five books including The Death of Rhythm and Blue Eyes. Also, he invested in a couple of movies like Shes Gotta Have It.

George mentions how his ambition  grew in his new apartment. This new era like he mentioned made him realize a lot of things. By seeing all the inspiring artist that moved to Fort Greene he saw how some had the talent but weren’t brave enough to stay and fight for their success. George started to realize his true talent which as to be a mentor. He related himself to his mother that was a teacher. He helped young artist to succeed in their career. He even said he was like a “one man network” for people because he helped them an introduced them to contacts he had that would benefit the artists he was mentoring. George learned a lot about him self because according to him “achieving sustained excellence is what I preached to others and sought to myself.” By this quote he means that  achieving your own success with out giving up in life is what he did and what he hopes everyone will do.

Fort Greene Dreams is an autobiography of Nelson George, a man of many talents. He is a music and culture critic, journalist and film maker. This article explains how he copes with moving from Jamaica, Queens to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Fort Greene is home to many celebrities during this time period such as Spike Lee, writer Thulani Davis and many other jazz musicians. His apartment was located at 19 Willoughby Aveneue, It was quite magnificent. It was a duplex consisting of wooden floors, two bedrooms, a large kitchen, and a large backyard. Nelson George also begins to compare Queens to Brooklyn and how are they different from each other. While working with different artists Nelson begins to learn more about himself, and the type of write he was. When Nelson finds out that he has been inspiring his clients, sort of like a mentor. He became very involved in the mentoring, criticism, and producing world. Fort Greene brought Nelson a new life and it helped him learn that to measure himself was not by sudden success or consistent failure but by their body of work. Nelson Greene wanted to become one of the greats such as Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, or Gordon Parks.

Fort Greene Dreams tells the story of Nelson George who is a music and culture critic, journalist, and a filmmaker. He served as a music editor and he helped to finance director Spike Lee’s debut feature “She’s Gotta Have It.” Nelson lived in Jamaica, Queens apartment. He got a phone call from Spike and told him how he is moving to Fort Greene, Brooklyn. When he moved to Brooklyn he noticed how it’s totally different from living in Queens.He then later started comparing Queens and Brooklyn. Nelson said how in Brooklyn he lives in a duplex apartment with wood floors, two bedrooms, a large kitchen, and etc. Back in Queens he shared a room with his sister and the place was all tidied up. He wrote 5 books living their but now since he lives in a big apartment his mind has open and now he has more ideas. Nelson realized what kind of a writer and lover he was. He was a mentor and a teacher like his mother. Nelson only didn’t write about artists and hang out with them, but he found himself being a kind of one-man for supporting people. Nelson said how he saw artists who gave up and are tired of all this but his dream was to write a bookshelf of volumes, so that one day he might drown in them. But more importantly he wanted to have a full active life and to be productive. Last but not least he said ”Achieving sustained excellence is what I preached to others and sought for myself.”