#atlanta

People who swear on the old Southern traditions don't know what the hell they are. I think of boll weevils and hook worms. [Look Magazine interview 25 April 1961] ↗

— William B. Hartsfield

#desegregation #georgia #integration #racism #south

My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#atlanta #clown #crazy #crowd #dancer

Los Angeles, Houston, Denver, Atlanta: those are all cities that really didn't get big, didn't hit their stride until the 20th century. ↗

— Paul Goldberger

#angeles #atlanta #big #century #cities

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

#ask #atlanta #back #car #conductor

Because I was in Atlanta, people didn't realize I'm one of the real forefathers in the game. ↗

— Jermaine Dupri

#because #forefathers #game #i #people

That's an economic development program in the metropolitan area. If they don't see that, and you don't get these things done, then you're competing with Texas and California and Atlanta; then you really have problems. ↗

— Richard M. Daley

#atlanta #california #competing #development #done

I am happy with what I do. I'd love to be the manager of the Atlanta Braves, but they hired somebody this week. So I'll just have to be inordinately happy with one of the best jobs on the planet. ↗

— Robert Gibbs

#atlanta #best #braves #happy #hired

Once I went to bed in Orlando and I woke up in Atlanta. I have no idea how that happened. ↗

— A. J. McLean

#bed #happened #how #i #idea

I've always liked Atlanta. And not just for the strip clubs, but the shopping and the food. ↗

— Jon Stewart

#atlanta #clubs #food #i #just

There's not much to do in Atlanta, so the cast went to the gym together, went shopping together, and dinner was always a group thing. It's that whole summer-camp experience that making movies tends to be anyway. ↗

— Timothy Olyphant

#anyway #atlanta #cast #dinner #experience