Atlanta Quotes - Page 2

• The very first time I was on a car in Atlanta, I saw the conductor - all conductors are white - ask a Negro woman to get up and take a seat farther back in order to make a place for a white man. I have also seen white men requested to leave the Negro section of the car.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Men, White Man, Order

  Ray Stannard Baker (1908). “Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy”

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• If you go to Atlanta, the first question people ask you is, "What's your business?" In Macon they ask, "Where do you go to church?" In Augusta they ask your grandmother's maiden name. But in Savannah the first question people ask you is "What would you like to drink?"

  John Berendt

  Grandmother, Names, People

  "Even in the Best of Cities" by Jonathan Yardley, www.washingtonpost.com. February 06, 1994.

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• I'm not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.

  Tucker Max

  Kentucky, West Coast, Grew Up

  "Q&A: Bad Boy Author Tucker Max Makes a Movie and Survives, So Far". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Atlanta is where I want to be. Believe that.

  Bruce Irvin

  Believe, Want

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• I am a black male who grew up in the inner city of Atlanta and no one ever followed me in a mall. I don't recall any doors clicking when I crossed the street. And I never had anyone clutching their handbag when I got on an elevator. I guess having two awesome parents who taught me to be a respectful young man paid dividends.

  Allen West

  Men, Doors, Cities

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• The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.

  Usher

  Children, Relax, Paparazzi

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• In the beginning, Atlanta was without form, and void; and it still is.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Void, Form, Stills

  "Long Time Leaving". Book by Roy Blount Jr., www.nytimes.com. 2007.

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• Atlanta is not the South.

  Pimp C

  Rapper, South

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• Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.

  Raj Chetty

  Cities, Low Income, Example

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It's great having Bruce Springsteen on my show. We have so much in common! We're both from New Jersey, just from different neighborhoods. Sort of like how Martin Luther King and Margaret Mitchell both came from Atlanta. But from different neighborhoods.

  Jon Stewart

  Kings, Different, Jersey

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• I didn't dream about being a director. I didn't know I wanted to do something with film until the summer between my sophomore and junior years at Morris College in Atlanta, Georgia.

  Spike Lee

  Summer, Dream, College

  "Spike Lee Talks OLDBOY, Why He Considers the Film a Reinterpretation, Performances of Josh Brolin and Elizabeth Olsen & His Confidence in Audience Turnout". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 17, 2013.

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• The people in Atlanta, they're not really up on the blogs. A few people are, but it's not super crazy. In Atlanta it's still very much radio. When they hear it on the radio, that's what it is.

  Donnis

  Crazy, People, Radio

  "Donnis Talks 'Fashionably Late,' Atlantic Debut & Texting With T.I". Interview with Jordan Martins, www.complex.com. June 24, 2010.

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• The interesting thing about Georgia is, Atlanta is teeming with middle-class black people and black people with money - and yet there is still segregation.

  Richard Benjamin

  Class, People, Interesting

  "Journey into the Heart of Whiteness". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. December 23, 2009.

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• I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial "outside agitator" idea.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Destiny, Ideas, Justice

  "Letter from Birmingham Jail," 16 Apr. 1963

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• When Olympic decathlon gold medalist Bruce Jenner asked a roomful of Olympic hopefuls if they had a list of written goals, every one raised their hands. When he asked how many of them had that list with them right that moment, only one person raised their hand. That person was Dan O'Brien. And it was Dan O'Brien who went on to win the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Don't underestimate the power of setting goals and constantly reviewing them.

  Jack Canfield

  Winning, Hands, Goal

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• Atlanta's my musical home. It really was the place where I really came alive.

  John Mayer

  Home, Musical, Alive

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• I couldn't tell people what I wanted to do because I was from Atlanta. You don't tell people you're gonna be a comedian in Atlanta. That means you ain't gonna do nothing.

  Chris Tucker

  Mean, People, Comedian

  "Chris Tucker earns, dreams big". Interview with Jamie Allen, www.cnn.com. August 9, 2001.

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• You don't need Tom Wolfe to tell you that the Buckhead section of Atlanta is the jewel of the city, an area of gracious homes, elegant hotels and shopping centers, as well as some of the best restaurants.

  Florence Fabricant

  Home, Jewels, Cities

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• More than 10,000 athletes came to Atlanta seeking Olympic medals. Only a few of them will be lucky and skilled enough to claim one.

  Mary Lou Retton

  Athlete, Lucky, Enough

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• Growing up in Atlanta I always had a sense of what fashion was, a sense of style - my parents always talked about the importance of making a first impression and that's stayed with me.

  Cam Newton

  Fashion, Growing Up, Parent

  "The ESQ&A: Cam Newton on His New Clothing Line". Interview with Nic Screws, www.esquire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

  John Shelton Reed

  Southern, Soldier, Looks

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• The Atlanta Hawks are a bunch of guys who would prefer to pass kidney stones than pass a basketball.

  Bob Weiss

  Basketball, Guy, Kidney Stones

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• It took a qualified wizard to detect a summoning in progress. It required only a half-literate idiot with a twitch of power and a dim idea of how to use it to attempt one. Before you knew it, a three-headed Slavonic god was wreaking havoc in downtown Atlanta, the skies were raining winged snakes, and SWAT was screaming for more ammo.

  Ilona Andrews

  Rain, Sky, Snakes

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• Home. Home was BAMA, the Sprawl, the Boston-Atlanta Metropolitan Axis. Program a map to display frequency of data exchange, every thousand megabytes a single pixel on a very large screen. Manhattan and Atlanta burn solid white. Then they start to pulse, the rate of traffic threatening to overload your simulation. Your map is about to go nova. Cool it down. Up your scale. Each pixel a million megabytes. At a hundred million megabytes per second, you begin to make out certain blocks in midtown Manhattan, outlines of hundred-year-old industrial parks ringing the old core of Atlanta.

  William Gibson

  Block, Home, White

  William Gibson (2016). “Neuromancer”, p.35, Hachette UK

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• Whenever I think of Milwaukee, I think of the American League. Hmm, Boston, Atlanta, weren't they the Browns, too?

  Mike Shannon

  Thinking, Boston, League

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