Atlanta Georgia Quotes:

We are looking at live pictures at this moment of a protest that is happening in Atlanta, Georgia, I believe, that has been assembled by the NAACP in protest, of course, of the shooting of Keith Lamont Scott.

- Chris Hayes

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Believe, Atlanta, Shooting, Naacp, Atlanta Georgia

A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat.

- Allen West

topic: Education, Army, Opportunity, Inner City, Women In Combat

I wasn't thinking about history. I was thinking about how we were going to end segregation at lunch counters in Atlanta, Georgia.We would have never thought about making history, we just thought: Here is our chance to get out our sense of rejection at this kind of racial discrimination. I don't know that there was a time that anybody growing up in the South wasn't enraged about being segregated and being discriminated against.

- Marian Wright Edelman

source: Interview with Jurnee Smollett-Bell, www.lennyletter.com. April 8, 2016.

topic: Growing Up, Thinking, Atlanta, Making History, Racial Discrimination

I got into cooking just by watching my mom and my aunts and my great-aunts and actually one of my cousins who has her own catering business in Atlanta, Georgia. So everybody around me really cooked and it was just all these different styles and backgrounds and cuisines of cooking that I found so interesting.

- Kelly Rowland

source: Source: thecelebritycafe.com

topic: Mom, Cousin, Aunt, Catering, My Cousin

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

topic: Summer, Dream, College, Sophomore, Morris

The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: New York, Stars, Dark, Jackson Mississippi, Johannesburg

I love David Bowie and Cher and Diana Ross. I wanted to follow in their footsteps. So I set out to do that in a rock-'n'-roll band in Atlanta, Georgia. That led me to nightclubs and to the sort of Andy Warhol experience of creating a personality.

- RuPaul

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Creating, Rocks, Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia

The people of Arizona, the people of Atlanta, Georgia, you should be ashamed of yourselves.

- Carlos Santana

source: "Carlos Santana Visits Georgia, Blasts State On Immigration" by Felix Contreras, www.npr.org. May 20, 2011.

topic: Atlanta, People, Georgia, Atlanta Georgia

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a tiny mountain town called Brevard, North Carolina. My parents were divorced, and my two lives were very different because of socioeconomic reasons.

- Lauren Myracle

topic: Girl, Atlanta, Two, Southern Girl, Atlanta Georgia