When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices…

Baton Rouge is small, so when somebody like me blowup, who they used to chase around the neighborhood, who was a wild little kid,…

— Boosie

“lit white tanks of oil refineries and petrochemical plants. “Well,” said Giordino without any particular expression in his voice, “is now a good time…

— Clive Cussler

“The baking wind tore at his hat and he held it by the brim with one hand. It relieved him to look at it,…

— Paulette Jiles

So whether that's taking a bunch of people from Chicago down to Standing Rock or being in Flint, Michigan, or being in Palestine or…

— Vic Mensa

It was electric. When Death Valley is rocking, it seems as if it might actually take flight. On Saturday, I went back to Baton…

— Wright Thompson

Actually, when I think about growing up, I feel most affected by two travels that I made working in cargo boats when I was…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

It's what you'd expect out of Baton Rouge: people tailgating with shrimp étouffée, everything from alligators roasting on a barbecue to dishes that you…

— Erin Andrews

Louisiana is a special place in my family's history, and we are committed as a family to never forget the city and the people…

— Tina Knowles

I love Louisiana. There's no place on earth like Louisiana, and there's no city on earth like New Orleans. I grew up in Baton…

— Don Lemon

I grew up in Baton Rouge and learned to be a musician down there. I call it the only city in America that has…

— Randy Jackson

I was a rock star. I was the president of Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

— Tyrann Mathieu

There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a…

— Laura Mullen

I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton…

— Naomi Klein

I absolutely love doing games in Baton Rouge. Night games in Tiger Stadium are a spectacle and the food choices all around are fantastic!…

— Todd Blackledge

I am also a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Mayor of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, among other things.

— Jack L. Chalker