I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don’t make money – they just barely break even.
When I first came to Atlanta, I did not want to come here; I got traded here.
Perceptions really do define what our realities are. What we’re hoping to do with ‘Atlanta’ is to really shatter that. To shatter it completely wide open. To go from the furthest lane of absurdity to the furthest lane of reality and make them blend.
I began working on stage in Atlanta when I was 3, doing a dance act with the Ragamuffins of Rhythm. Later I became a juvenile straight man for the older comedians. After that I worked out a stand-up act.
I grew up kind of in the country, in western Georgia. And then I moved a lot closer to Atlanta, and I started doing plays, and when I started doing film, I think I really started to love it.
When I make a song, I actually literally talk to one person on purpose… I don’t focus on, are people in Chicago gonna like this? Are people in Atlanta gonna like this? I think of one person who’s a Too Short authority, who thinks I can’t do any wrong, because I’ve customized all these songs for this one person.
When Migos flew me out to see if I was actually making the beats, they didn’t expect a white kid from Canada to be making harder beats than the guys in Atlanta. Being white in that environment, it was definitely different.
But being on location and shooting, whether its in Puerto Rico or Atlanta, it always reminds me of how really cool my job can be. Interacting with the fans is one of the best parts of it.
I think it’s important for artists to work together. It’s great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came out to our show in Atlanta and kinda made a surprise appearance there, it shows a mutual respect for what each other does.
Phil Niekro and his brother were pitching against each other in Atlanta. Their parents were sitting right behind home plate. I saw their folks more that day than they did the whole weekend.
When you grow up in Atlanta, joining Lynyrd Skynyrd is like joining the Rolling Stones.
I never thought that ‘Atlanta’ would go off and do what it was gonna do. I never thought that I would get recognized for that show the way that I have been.
If you’re looking for a MLB example of a guy who was dominant as a youngster and regressed as an additional cautionary tale, Atlanta Brave Steve Avery fits the bill.
I’ve seen, and liked, ‘Insecure’ and ‘Atlanta.’
Coming from the south side of Atlanta, Georgia, everyone has a chip on their shoulder. That’s how competitive it is. It makes athletes great who come from there.
Atlanta has had the biggest influence. I was born in Baltimore, but I’ve lived in ATL since I was probably about 4 years old.
I’m very appreciative of Atlanta. I love living here. I love coaching here.
I was a news anchor in Macon for a year and a half, and a news reporter for exactly one year in Spartanburg before they hired me at the ABC affiliate WSD in Atlanta.
Somebody had asked me how it was to be in Atlanta, and I said that Atlanta had always been known as a Braves city, a baseball town.
‘Stomp the Yard’ was a great film. It was a great film, great opportunity. It’s the reason I live in Atlanta to this day, that film. But as far as acting goes, it wasn’t very challenging. I played me.
The King Center in Atlanta specializes in educating people about my father’s life, work and teachings, and we have resources and programs available for that purpose.
I started producing in California, and they called it mob music. When I moved to Atlanta, the sound was different. People in Atlanta didn’t like to rap over West Coast beats. So I had to make adjustments to what was going on in the South.
In Atlanta, I went to barber school. That’s how I met everyone I know in Atlanta, by cutting hair.
In the summertime you’ll find me back home in Atlanta, in the gym playing against whoever walks in that day.
My mother gave birth to me at Fort McPherson in Atlanta, Georgia. A short while later we were living in Stuttgart, Germany.
Back in the early ’70s, there were two airlines that flew puddle jumpers from the Sarasota-Bradenton airport to Atlanta: National and Eastern, neither of which exists today.
At the end of the day, it’s incredibly important to have a show like ‘Atlanta’ because if we can’t stand up for and celebrate each other, then who will? Who will do it better?
I’m not just the tough chick from Atlanta who’s an attorney. I’m a girl who wants to be courted and have the love of her life.
If it wasn’t for Al Kooper, there might not be a Lynyrd Skynyrd. He’s the one who found us at Pinocchio’s in Atlanta, Georgia, and signed us to Sounds Of The South through MCA, brought the band to attention.
I live in Atlanta because Ludacris lives in Atlanta. And because T.I. lives in Atlanta and because Lil Wayne comes to Atlanta to hang out all the time and because Rick Ross’ engineers are in Atlanta.
I was a ball boy for the Atlanta Falcons; I was a tax assessor – this was all in high school – I was an account assistant at the courthouse, and then I was a real estate assistant.
I’m not West Coast at all. I was born in Atlanta, but I grew up in Kentucky, outside of Lexington, in Winchester.
I became a novelist because of ‘Gone With the Wind,’ or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a ‘Southern’ novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word ‘Southern’ because ‘Gone With the Wind’ set my mother’s imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
In Chicago, you know you got beef with everybody. In Atlanta, you’re chilling, but you don’t get too comfortable. Like, if I go to the store, it’s not like anybody’s gonna come out shooting at me.
Atlanta has become and has always been a place where you create your own universe.
Me and Carti are both from the Southside of Atlanta. That’s one of the main reasons that we clicked so well.
Also I’m a part of the people that I’ve worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job.
We film ‘Resurrection’ in Atlanta, where humidity is a force to be reckoned with, especially for those of us who have naturally curly hair. I would love for the au naturel look of the ’60s to come back. No make up, no hair products – just sun-kissed skin, freckles, and crazy curls.
I love Atlanta. It’s a great city with great crews there, but it’s really hard to make it into a Las Vegas version of it because it doesn’t look at all like Las Vegas.
At St. Francis de Sales in Atlanta, we do not have an organ. We do not have rehearsals during the week. We do not have a professional choir.
When I go to Atlanta, I’m famous. I can get on a flight, anything. Because they’re watching every show, and if you’re black, you famous.
Atlanta? I think it’s the greatest city anywhere I know of.
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.
CNN was just a glimmer in my eye when I was growing up in Atlanta.
When I was traded from the Oakland A’s to the Atlanta Braves before the 2005 season, a childhood dream was realized. I grew up a Braves fan just a few hours south of Atlanta, and it was hard for me to believe that I was going to actually play for the Atlanta Braves and legendary manager Bobby Cox.
There’s been a lot of successful shows like ‘This Is Us,’ ‘Atlanta,’ and ‘Insecure,’ so, I feel like whenever something works, Hollywood wants to copy it.
In Atlanta, with a large African-American population, Sosa is often considered a black man. In Miami and Los Angeles, with larger Hispanic populations, he is a Latino man, and the black label is rejected as robbing Hispanics of a hero.
My first novel, ‘Leaving Atlanta,’ took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.
I grew up in Atlanta, Georgia, the youngest of five. There’s something about being the youngest and wanting to be seen. You’re like, ‘I want attention, notice me.’
I think a season of ‘Atlanta’ bounces back between classic sitcom structure and genre movies.
When I ran the anchor leg to a gold medal with my Canadian teammates Glenroy Gilbert, Bruny Surin, and Robert Esmie in the 4×100-metre relay at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, it was my responsibility to motivate the guys as unofficial captain and leader.
There’s no way I’m not gonna have a gun, ’cause you just never know what’ll go down in Atlanta. But I’d rather be able to protect myself and have the right, and not have to think about the consequences if I’m just trying to protect myself.
That other saying, I’m a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied.
In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.
