Olivia Motley

"Much of what you can say about this city you can also contradict. New Orleans is a city of firm racial divides and enthusiastic racial mixing, a city that contains both a poverty that can be measured by statistics and an extraordinary wealth of festivtiy and memory that cannot be quantified, a city that holds tremendous violence and what might be the oppostie of violence: collective, confident, urban rejoicing in the public, over and over again, in parades and music and greetings from strangers on the street."

- Unfathomable City