Creole Culture Quotes

I'm from New Orleans, Louisiana. It's not a black-and-white type of thing down there. It's a very cultural place. Everybody has the same accent. It's not like if you're white we can't hang with you or anything like that. So it's easy for us to call each other out on our things.

My family has been in New Orleans longer than the American flag has flown over the city.

What we do in New Orleans, man - we party!

I don't know what America would be without New Orleans and the music.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

New Orleans: The least annoying French place on Earth.

I've always loved Louisiana and particularly New Orleans, and I think a lot of people when they travel there, think they're home there - there are just so many spirits, it's so rich in culture. It's steeped in a true spirit of individuality that makes this country. It's the oldest part of our story, in a way. And being in that climate, it was really conducive to letting our imaginations soar. I found it to be the true inspiration.

Every time I close my eyes blowing that trumpet of mine, I look right into the heart of good old New Orleans. It has given me something to live for.

I come from the city of New Orleans where it's live and vibrant.

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

Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.

New Orleans is great for a lot of the old-school charm and character.

I'm from New Orleans, and I know that people do like to sit and talk and drink and, you know, have conversation; you have dialogue.

The power of Haitian heritage and the strength of the Haitian people is tremendous. And Haiti holds a unique and rich role in the history of African Americans.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

I love New Orleans physically. I love the trees and the balmy air and the beautiful days. I have a beautiful house here.

New Orleans is kind of dark in a very beautiful way.

I think, you know, people think of the city of New Orleans as a parochial place where it's a lot of folks who are from there and a lot of big families, a lot of musical families, a lot of history, a lot of tradition, but I like to think of New Orleans as an idea.

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 races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.

New Orleans is like a big musical gumbo. The sound I have is from being in the city my whole life.

I love Louisiana. It's amazing.

New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.

I've experienced all the food and restaurants in New Orleans. I've been doing a bit of touristing when I have the day off, just walking in the French Quarter. To me, it's very, very surprising how people are so friendly. But no, it's very different from Paris.

What happens in Vegas may stay in Vegas, but what happens in New Orleans, goes home with you.