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.