“What happened in New Orleans looked like the curse of God, in time if New Orleans recovers and becomes the pristine city it can become it may in time be called a blessing. But at this time it's called a curse.”

“New Orleans was a chocolate city before Katrina. It is going to be a chocolate city after. How is that divisive?”

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.
Everywhere else is Cleveland.”

“Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.”

“New Orleans is a city of paradox. Sin, salvation, sex, sanctification, so intertwined yet so separate.”

“Can you do it? When the time comes? When the time comes there will be no time. Now is the time. Curse God and die.”

“Keynes was to economics as Katrina was to New Orleans.”

“Leaving New Orleans also frightened me considerably. Outside of the city limits the heart of darkness, the true wasteland begins.”

“A blessing for a wise a curse for a fool I often call it wealth.”

“Hurricane [Katrina] hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed much of the Gulf Coast — that was an act of God … Now what happened to New Orleans, that was a complete failure of the federal government. Complete negligence by the feds.”