My brother-in-law is an African-American cop who patrols a New Orleans suburban community. He speaks to me often of his perilous duty. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
We're not really trying to do anything besides represent where we come from, and that's New Orleans. — Trombone Shorty Copy Share Image
“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.” — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
Housing vouchers are a vital lifeline for many people I know in New Orleans and around the country, including struggling artists. — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch. — Harry Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm always honored to see my music and New Orleans Bounce make its way into mainstream culture. — Big Freedia Copy Share Image
My father was Muslim, and my mom is Christian, and we moved from New Orleans to Oakland, so I always had this… — Yahya Abdul-Mateen II Copy Share Image
We wander through old streets, and pause before the age stricken houses; and, strange to say, the magic past lights them up. — Grace King Copy Share Image
The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about… — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
What is interesting in this is the exchange of music that occurred between New Orleans and Cuba, I mean, they had ferries… — Ruben Blades Copy Share Image
I know the hustle that is in Louisiana. Knowing where you are from, really where you're from, helps you to help the… — Ed Reed Copy Share Image
“In New Orleans I have noticed that people are happiest when they are going to funerals, making money, taking care of the… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about creating my own cereal box. I get to live out a childhood dream and help support the incredible… — Alvin Kamara Copy Share Image
My food is Louisiana, New Orleans-based, well-seasoned, rustic. I think it's pretty unique because of my background being influenced by my mom,… — Emeril Lagasse Copy Share Image
It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Coltrane came to New Orleans one day and he was talking about the jazz scene. And Coltrane mentions that the problem with… — Branford Marsalis Copy Share Image
“I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
What is kind of beautiful about Katrina is that even though the media and officials are working hard at telling us everyone… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“He rolled and thrashed in his bed, waiting for the dancing blue shadows to come in his window, waiting for the heavy… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I didn't date my wife in high school, but she was definitely by far the coolest woman there. She was definitely the… — Eric Mabius Copy Share Image
By natural means, as the Lord always operates for the accomplishment of his purposes, means so simple that the thoughtless and unbelieving… — Anthony W. Ivins Copy Share Image
My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we… — Ice T Copy Share Image
“The Way the Cards Fall " Why did you stay away so long? I’ve buried another husband, since I last saw you… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
“Lexington wasn't a great city, like Philadelphia or New York, but around the Courthouse square, and along Main Street and Broadway, brick… — Barbara Hambly Copy Share Image
I'm from New Orleans, so to be able to play for the Hornets is a blessing for me. — Kelly Oubre, Jr Copy Share Image
The people who couldn't get out of New Orleans to escape the storm were predominantly Black. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't dig that two-beat jive the New Orleans cats play. My boys and I have to have four heavy beats to… — Count Basie Copy Share Image
We all have our own party fantasy that we've either lived or wanted to live in New Orleans. — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many… — Tim Cahill Copy Share Image
I like historical fiction. I fell in love with New Orleans the first time I visited it. And I wanted to place… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
New Orleans is one of the two most ingrown, self-obsessed little cities in the United States. (The other is San Francisco.) — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Be sure to enjoy the trademark beverage of New Orleans named for the deadly storm surges that frequently decimate the city. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate. — Harry Connick, Jr Copy Share Image
Everyone in New Orleans has been welcoming me as family. Everywhere I go, they always say, 'Put on for the city, baaay-bee.' — Buddy Hield Copy Share Image
New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted. — Austin Rivers Copy Share Image
In America, there might be better gastronomic destinations than New Orleans, but there is no place more uniquely wonderful. — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
“Everything you needed to know about the South could be found in either Savannah or New Orleans.” — Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl Copy Share Image
I'd love to live in New Orleans. I love the freedom of it - for good and for bad. — James Gandolfini Copy Share Image
I'm really getting to appreciate traditional jazz now - the New Orleans stuff - a lot more than I did before. — John Goodman Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
