In my mind, Atlanta is a city where people are constantly trying to come up. They want to be richer than they were.
Coming to Atlanta was like being in a country club. It was really tame in the locker room in WCW compared to New York.
I have a unique lens on how the extreme priorities of the NRA’s leaders are dangerous for America, Atlanta and communities of color.
Every artist that I got with me is really from the hood and really from Atlanta and really in the streets of Atlanta. Lotto Savage, Mookie Madri Gra, Freaky D$MG, that who I bring with me; that’s all sides of Atlanta.
In my day there was no one to tell me anything and I feel I have a responsibility to help a new generation. A lady in Atlanta came up to me and said: ‘Honey, you are a ministry.’ It is about the knowledge I can give others. I think gays will look after their own.
Atlanta is not the South.
When I go down to Mexico now, it’s not quite like I’m in Kansas City, but maybe it’s like when I’m in Atlanta the way I get recognized. That gives me a lot of pride.
I’m leaving Atlanta the same way I arrived, with great affection for the fans and a mutual respect.
I knew it was going to take a lot for me to leave my situation in Atlanta. We feel very good here. We love the city.
I dare somebody to go to Atlanta and not have a good time.
I met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
You can find me sleeping on the floor at Terminal B at the Atlanta airport any time.
Since he was 17 years old in Atlanta, I think people always knew that there was something different about Key. He’s obviously been able to adapt to so many sounds and time periods in his own way, which is clear from the long list of collaborators; but he has always retained an effortlessly weird perspective.
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.
I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.
Atlanta is unique to me. You got poor black people, but I also saw this: I saw black doctors, lawyers, educators. All you gotta do is want to be it to see it, and once you see something, it can be a reality.
I learned Spanish as my second language from middle school through high school. I grew up volunteering at homeless shelters and tutoring kids of Latin immigrants in Atlanta, who didn’t speak any English. That prepared me for when I traveled.
As I got older, I’d say probably when I got to, like, seventh or eighth grade, I was living in Atlanta, Georgia at the time, and I went for an open call for an agent, a local agent out there, a woman named Joy Purvis, and she ended up picking me up.
I live in Jacksonville, Florida, but Atlanta always feels like the hometown gig.
I pointed out that the Atlanta Olympic bomber – as well as Timothy McVeigh and the people who protest against gay rights at military funerals – are Christians but we journalists don’t identify them by their religion.
I got my own sound in Atlanta because I don’t listen to anybody’s music. When you listen to people’s music, you start to say stuff they say as an artist because that’s what you’ve been listening to. Me, I don’t listen to anybody. I support, but I don’t listen, because I don’t want to run with someone style. I do my own thing.
My mom used to cut out articles from the ‘Atlanta Journal Constitution’ when I was in high school. She would either give them to me to read or she would post them on the fridge. These articles would usually be stories of someone inventing something, breaking records, or achieving some kind of success.
I didn’t want to come to L.A. without a plan. I was already dealing with my own indecision in Atlanta, so I didn’t want to pick up and relocate and do the same thing in a different area.
I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I’ve been back a couple of times since, and there’s no place I’ve lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.
