Creole Quotes:

I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.

- Boozoo Chavis

topic: Earth, Down To Earth, Creole

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

- Poppy Z. Brite

topic: New Orleans, Cajuns, Cuisine, Creole

Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.

- Langston Hughes

topic: White, Black, Prejudice, Racial Prejudice, Creole

Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.

- Carl Schmitt

source: Carl Schmitt (2007). “Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political”, p.85, Telos Press Publishing

topic: Enemy, Who You Are, Turkish, Spanish Proverb, Restitution

Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.

- Louis Armstrong

topic: Dream, Heart, Mean, Magnolias, Bayou

Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.

- Esmeralda Santiago

source: Esmeralda Santiago (2006). “When I was Puerto Rican”, p.243, Da Capo Press

topic: Walks, Who You Are, Spanish Proverb, Restitution, Who Your Real Friends Are

Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

source: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1989). “Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants”, p.296, Princeton University Press

topic: Romantic, Famous Love, Best Love, Turkish, Spanish Proverb

(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.

- Stefan Zweig

topic: Christian, Jobs, Freedom, Mulattoes, Creole

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.

- Constance Baker Motley

topic: New Orleans, Cities, Atmosphere, Creole

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.

- Nicole Ari Parker

topic: French Quarter, Creole

One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.

- Justin Simien

source: Source: www.moviesonline.ca

topic: Mother, Growing Up, Community, Creole, Black Culture

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

- Paul Prudhomme

source: StarChefs Interview, www.starchefs.com. October, 2011.

topic: New Orleans, Cities, People, Creole

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.

- Jelly Roll Morton

topic: Music, Piano, Feelings, Funny Music, Pianist

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

- Merry Clayton

topic: Father, Blue, Black, Creole

Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Women, Passion, Europe, Creole, Tropics

A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.

- Honore de Balzac

topic: Children, Women, Thinking, Creole

I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.

- Rodney Jerkins

topic: Inspiration, New Orleans, Feelings, Creole

You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.

- Emeril Lagasse

source: "Emeril on eating smart and efficient". ESPNHS Interview, www.espn.com. February 1, 2012.

topic: Together, Sodium, Watches, Creole, Salt And Pepper

Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautes it. There's, um, shrimp ka-bobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.

- Mykelti Williamson

topic: Sea, Shrimp, Burgers, Stew, Forrest Gump

America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.

- Richard Rodriguez

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Daughter, Black And White, Blood, Miscegenation, Mulattoes

Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are

- Chris Burden

topic: Car, Nails, Who You Are, Spanish Proverb, Restitution

Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.

- Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

topic: Love, Food, Health, Spanish Proverb, Slow Food

Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.

- Martin Heidegger

topic: Who You Are, Spanish Proverb, Restitution, Who Your Real Friends Are, Cheesy Love

When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.

- Klaus Nomi

topic: Mother, Kings, Rocks, Creole

One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.

- Frantz Fanon

topic: Mother, Children, Ridicule, Creole

My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.

- Meagan Good

source: "Meagan Good: The Unborn Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. January 20, 2009.

topic: Mother, Dad, Father, Cherokee, Cherokee Indian

Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Brother, Moving, San Antonio, Antonio