#new orleans

The people of New Orleans have gotten to rock bottom. And the only way out in my mind is for them to really understand it, and then to really choose to get better. ↗

— Mitch Landrieu

#bottom #choose #get #gotten #mind

And if citizens of New Orleans who are really contemplating coming back heard that we're really intent upon making the place secure again - regardless of whether the levees held or not - then I think a rebuilding process would really take shape. ↗

— Billy Tauzin

#back #citizens #coming #contemplating #heard

I was a very poor young black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in a sea of poverty trying to survive. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#boy #face #i #just #name

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

— Anne Rice

#beautiful #days #here #house #i

There's a great deal of disturbance in this country and how black feel about what happened in Katrina, and, you know, many of the comics, many of performers are in Las Vegas and New Orleans trying to raise money for what happened there. ↗

— Michael Richards

#black #comics #country #deal #disturbance

Watching the scenes out of New Orleans, if you turn down the sound it could be the Sudan or any Third World country. But it's not. it's the United States of America. ↗

— Al Roker

#any #could #country #down #new

Well I went to New Orleans to cover the jazz festival for Trio, it's this new arts channel, it's really great. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#channel #cover #festival #great #i