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

“I don't care what people are saying Uptown or wherever they are. This city will be chocolate at the end of the day…This city will be a majority African-American city. It's the way God wants it to be.”

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

“There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.”

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

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

“The Kit-Kat candy bar has the name 'Kit-Kat' imprinted into the chocolate… That robs you of chocolate! That is a clever chocolate saving technique. I go down to the factory "You owe me some letters!"”

“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.”

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

“I got that white girl
No-scrimnate
Chocolate lemon red velvet
I eat all the cake
They outside hating
Cause they can't get in
The whole city's out
We maxed it to ten.”