My family is from New Orleans. My grandma is French…

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

— Poppy Z. Brite

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

— Frantz Fanon

I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.

— Meta Golding

I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she…

— Rodney Jerkins

One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even…

— Justin Simien

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole…

— Louis Armstrong

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of…

— Nicole Ari Parker

“Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)”

— Myra Jolivet

“holy trinity” of Creole cuisine—bell peppers, celery, and onions—while”

— Rysa Walker

My grandmother is from Martinique, so sometimes I'm ashamed that I don't speak Creole.

— Josephine Jobert

My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.

— Merry Clayton

“Don't give me no 'but you're beautiful on the inside' bullshit." "No, you are beautiful on the outside," I say. "Don't give me that…

— Ibi Zoboi

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or…

— Emeril Lagasse

Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people…

— Shaquille O'Neal