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Quotes About Community

I've been very proud of a lot of the work I've done in New Orleans.
~ Steve Scalise
All of us who lived outside of New Orleans were horrified and heartbroken by what we saw when Katrina hit, the floods that followed the hurricane that happened.
~ Jonathan Demme
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.
~ Jason Mitchell
Always felt like I did things right, always felt like I did things for the community and did everything well in New Orleans.
~ Jimmy Graham
In New Orleans, we like to interact with the crowd. We don't like people sitting down.
~ Trombone Shorty
I need New Orleans. And New Orleans needs me.
~ Trombone Shorty
New Orleans made me who I am.
~ Trombone Shorty
The only thing we try and do is just be a part of the gumbo that New Orleans is.
~ Trombone Shorty
At the end of the day, I'm a New Orleans musician. Whatever that means.
~ Trombone Shorty
Music and dance is part of everything in New Orleans. So I grew up appreciating it all.
~ Dawn Richard
New Orleans is home. That's where the heart is.
~ Steve Zissis
New Orleans just embraces people who love music.
~ Mannie Fresh
The name Hot Boys was based on a time in New Orleans where if you were really doing something or if the police were looking for you, people would be like, 'He hot. That boy hot.'
~ Mannie Fresh
Far Rockaway is like the New Orleans of New York.
~ Metta World Peace
Being in the city of New Orleans, meeting the people, it's been nothing but hospitality and a lot of love.
~ Jahlil Okafor
New Orleans is a great place, a place of celebration. But on the other hand, there's a reality to it, there's violence, there's misguided youth.
~ Tyrann Mathieu
Everyone is unique to the way that they dance in New Orleans.
~ Big Freedia
You're from Louisiana - you're playing for Louisiana, man. You get so much love from everybody, especially from New Orleans, my city. Everywhere I go, they're rooting for me.
~ Leonard Fournette
I love the fans here in New Orleans. They show so much love.
~ Zion Williamson
I'm a bounce artist, straight born and raised from New Orleans, Louisiana, and I love what I do.
~ Big Freedia
I always say New Orleans is my heart. It's where I'm from. I go back, and I have a huge fondness for it.
~ Bianca Del Rio
I love it here in New Orleans.
~ DeMarcus Cousins
I know the hustle that is in Louisiana. Knowing where you are from, really where you're from, helps you to help the community. That's every city, but New Orleans is just different. We have big hearts, but it's just a matter of us having the information, having the people to push you along like I had.
~ Ed Reed
New Orleans just wasn't anything for me. I didn't fit in. I just couldn't get adjusted.
~ Austin Rivers