Atlanta Quote by James Weldon Johnson

I went to Yale in 1980 and always through I'd like to come back to South Carolina but imagined I needed to live away…

— Scott Bessent

I think me leaving Detroit shaped my style. Me leaving, going to New York, going to L.A. and seeing what they were doing there.…

— Danny Brown

In the fall of 1978, I left the religious, conservative, biracial, slow-paced culture of South Carolina for the secular, liberal, multi-ethnic, intense culture of…

— Virginia Postrel

My family's support and the negative environment of the day toward blacks in South Carolina became the forces that led me out of the…

— Joe Frazier

I was a young man working in Omaha, Nebraska, in the mid-1960s when I received a call, and I was summoned to Atlanta to…

— Tom Brokaw

I traveled all over the South looking for factories - to keep production in the South. I wanted to give back to the place…

— Reese Witherspoon

It was the craziest period of my life: I was getting ready for the baccalaureate, the phone was ringing off the hook, I visited…

— Raphael Varane

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

— Richard Wright

To be honest, I never even planned my career in South. I simply went with the flow and took things as they came.

— Pranitha Subhash

I couldn't believe there was going to be a show called 'Atlanta,' because that's my favorite city in the country. It's where I went…

— Brian Tyree Henry

The South was influential in my life. It helped form who I am. I went to New York out of drama school, and I…

— Connie Britton

I knew I had to take my ambition more seriously, so I enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago. Then, in the fall, I…

— Claes Oldenburg