Best Creole Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“People always ask me what is my favourite thing about Trinidad. It is a hard question because ! love the beaches and the music of Trinidad, but... I think the food is the best of all!”

Culture Food Caribbean Creole Trinidad And Tobago

Book:Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago

Source: Juanita : A bilingual children's book set in Trinidad and Tobago

“Once I find my way to Grandma's restaurant, after what feels like a zillion wrong turns and dead ends, I walk in and smell all the bomb soul food- her famous fried chicken with all the creole seasonings, thyme, rosemary, and tarragon. I even get a whiff of her famous sweet potato pie, and I'm practically drooling.”

Seasonings Soul Food Creole

Book:Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

Source: Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Food & Love

“There is a marked difference between brilliance and intellectuality. Some of us use both words interchangeably to describe people who can use big words. A number of people are grandiloquent but not wise. A person can be verbose but not esoteric. Just as literacy does not equate to intelligence. There are two types of learnt people in the world. Some persons are scholars and others are alchemist. Let me further my thesis on intellectuals. Now you have a scholar and an alchemist. The scholar passes exams, memorizes words and phrases, the alchemist has the intellectual prowess to start a whole new fundamental truth, discipline and school of thought because they can create concepts from their own minds without no external inputs. Alchemist pass exams without studying because they just know how things work or they use context clue. For that reason not every smart person is a genius. Alchemist use their brains to change or improve the world with ingenuity and originality. The alchemist has a way with words, when they speak you stop and listen. The alchemist is witty in any language (Creole or patois). Let’s renounce the colonial concept that using Anglo-Saxon words is a mark of intelligence. Eg. Kartel speaks English- Kartel intelligent yuh fawk.”

Creole Jamaican Author Jamaican Crystal Evans Patois

Book:Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

Source: Jamaican Acute Ghetto Itis

“Pushed times make a monkey chew pepper.~ Creole proverb. (challenging times inspire unique actions)”

Humor California Louisiana Cozy Mystery Psychic Paranormal Mystery Creole Cajun

Author:Myra Jolivet

“far noh mattah wat dey say, come wat may, we are here to stay inna Inglan, inna disya time yah...”

Caribbean Creole Postcolonial Dub Poetry

Book:Inglan is a Bitch

Source: Inglan is a Bitch

“Marie the Second sported a bright tignon to signal her status and identity. She flaunted her turban, gold jewelry, and a proud walk that announced to all that saw her -- I am not white, not slave, not black, not French, not Negro, not African American. I am a free woman, a Creole of New Orleans.”

Voodoo Creole Marie Laveau

Book:Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

Source: Voodoo Queen: The Spirited Lives of Marie Laveau

“I'm Creole, and I'm down to earth.”

Earth Down To Earth Creole

Author:Boozoo Chavis

“Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are.”

Source: Conversations of German Refugees ; Wilhelm Meister's Journeyman Years, Or, The Renunciants

“Going from Army base to base as a kid taught me to be a man of all nations. I'd go to the Jewish people and say, 'Shalom, brother.' I go to the Muslim people and say, 'Salaam aleikum.'I go to the Chinese people and say, 'Nee hao mah,' which means, 'How you doin'?' I go to the Japanese people and say, 'Konnichiwa.' I go to San Antonio, Texas, and I get along with Mexicans. Then I go to Louisiana and hang with the Creoles. Moving around a lot made me a man of all people.”

People Men Mean Made Kids Moving Nations Taught Brother Basketball Army Chinese Texas Be A Man Louisiana Antonio Shalom Creole San Antonio

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“A Creole woman is like a child, she wants to possess everything immediately; like a child, she would set fire to a house in order to fry an egg. In her languor, she thinks of nothing; when passionately aroused, she thinks of any act possible or impossible.”

Thinking Want Children Order House Women Fire Impossible Eggs Creole

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.”

Suffering Passion Evil Women Violence Europe Commit Good And Evil Illogical Indolence Apathetic Tropics Creole

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Nail me to my car and I'll tell you who you are”

“(Brazil:) I've never beheld such a paradise. The people are enchanting and--a mercy on this earth of ours--this is the only placewhere there isn't any race question. Negroes and whites and Indians, three-quarters, oneeighth, the wonderful Mulatto and Creole women, Jews and Christians, all dwell together in a peace that passes describing. The Jewish immigrants are in seventh heaven; all of them have jobs and feel at home.”

“My family is part Creole, and were Indian, and were also very, very black. My father was so black, he was blue.”

Father Black My Family Blue Indian Creole

Author:Merry Clayton

“My mother's mother is Jewish and African, so I guess that would be considered Creole. My mother's father was Cherokee Indian and something else. My dad's mother's Puerto Rican and black, and his father was from Barbados.”

Would Be Mother Father Black Dad My Dad Indian Barbados Cherokee Creole Cherokee Indian

Author:Meagan Good

“One of the facets of growing up the way I did, I never had the experience of being solely in the black community. Even my family, my mother is what they call Creole, so she's part French, part black, and grew up in Louisiana. It's a very specific kind of blackness that is different than what is traditionally thought of as the black community and black culture. So, I never felt a part of whatever that was.”

Way Kind Different Mother Culture Felt Black Community Growing Up Growing Grew Grew Up My Family Blackness Facets Louisiana Black Community Black Culture Creole

Author:Justin Simien

“When I was twelve, the biggest name in Rock and Roll was Elvis Presley. I bought an EP, "King Creole". I hid it in the basement, but my mother found it.”

Mother Found Names Rocks Kings Twelve Rock And Roll Basements Creole

Author:Klaus Nomi

“When you set a play in the French Quarter in New Orleans, it's hard not to acknowledge the whole African-American, French, white mixing of races. That's what the French Quarter is: it's a Creole community.”

Hard Play Whole Community White Race African American Acknowledge Quarters New Orleans Mixing Creole French Quarter

Author:Nicole Ari Parker

“I remember when I first got the call from Beyoncé to work on the project, and the mood that she was in and she was feeling, she wanted New Orleans-inspired music to be incorporated to the stuff she was doing. Creole-type stuff. Zydeco... She wanted that type of inspiration.”

Firsts Feelings Inspiration Wanted Remember Stuff Type Projects Inspired Mood Remember When New Orleans Creole

Author:Rodney Jerkins

“America has never had a very wide vocabulary for miscegenation. We say we like diversity, but we don't like the idea that our Hispanic neighbor is going to marry our daughter. America has nothing like the Spanish vocabulary for miscegenation. Mulatto, mestizo, Creole - these Spanish and French terms suggest, by their use, that miscegenation is a fact of life. America has only black and white. In eighteenth-century America, if you had any drop of African blood in you, you were black.”

Ifs Ideas Facts Use America Black Term White Blood Century Diversity Daughter Wide Neighbor Black And White Vocabulary Facts Of Life Hispanic Our Daughter Creole Miscegenation Mulattoes

Author:Richard Rodriguez

“You can easily put together your own favorite spice blend, whether that's a salt and pepper mixture or you're adding herbs to it or Creole spice. Just watch out for the sodium content. That why I encourage you to make your own.”

Together Watches Salt Mixtures Spices Herbs Peppers Creole Sodium Salt And Pepper

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“New Orleans may well have been the most liberal Deep South city in 1954 because of its large Creole population, the influence of the French, and its cosmopolitan atmosphere.”

Wells May Has Beens Cities Influence South Population Atmosphere New Orleans Creole

Author:Constance Baker Motley

“Creole is New Orleans city food. Communities were created by the people who wanted to stay and not go back to Spain or France.”

People Wanted Community Cities France Spain New Orleans Creole

Author:Paul Prudhomme

“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.”

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”

“One avoids Creolisms. Some families completely forbid Creole and mothers ridicule their children for speaking it.”

Children Mother Ridicule Creole

Book:Black Skin, White Masks

Source: Black Skin, White Masks

“Tell me who you walk with, and I'll tell you who you are.”

Source: When I was Puerto Rican

“Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings.”

Feelings Hurt Music Musician Jazz Get Up Piano Hurt Feelings Pianist Funny Music Piano Music Creole

Author:Jelly Roll Morton

“Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautes it. There's, um, shrimp ka-bobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo, pan-fried, deep-fried, stir-fried. There's pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich... That's, that's about it.”

Sea Fruit Bob Soup Potatoes Sandwiches Salad Lemons Peppers Burgers Barbecue Stew Coconuts Bubba Shrimp Pineapples Forrest Gump Creole Gumbo

Author:Mykelti Williamson

“Tell me who your enemy is, and I will tell you who you are.”

Source: Theory of the Partisan: Intermediate Commentary on the Concept of the Political

“New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.”

New Orleans Cuisine Creole Cajuns

Author:Poppy Z. Brite

“Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. When that's where you left your heart. The moonlight on the bayou a creole tune that fills the air. I dream about magnolias in bloom and I'm wishin' I was there.”

Knows Heart Mean Dream Left Air Missing Tunes Do You Know New Orleans Moonlight Magnolias Bayou Creole

Author:Louis Armstrong

“Everybody should take each other as they are, white, black, Indians, Creole. Then there would be no prejudice, nations would get along.”

Should Would Be Nations Black White Prejudice Racial Prejudice Creole

Book:The Best of Simple

Source: The Best of Simple

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