Lena Waithe Quotes

I make no promises every book will be about Chicago, but it's so inspiring. It's a city of such contradictions. I love to write about it.

People in Chicago are so cool! They are different; they're friendly and just genuinely happy. Everyone's so polite and sweet. They even look cool.

I have a place in Chicago and I get there as much as I can... The city is so unbelievably beautiful. It's one of the greatest cities on the planet. My heart beats differently when I'm in Chicago. It slows down and I feel more at ease.

I come from Chicago, and the landscape of the Midwest has always meant a great deal to me.

Chicago is the Great American City, and it was really great to live there during a time of economic expansion and opportunity and growth. I felt like I was living at the center of the world. Unlike New York, no one expects you to be a professional writer.

After New York, Chicago is my favorite city. It's just this great mix of Europe and America. The friends I have there are smart and witty and fun.

Being from a place like Chicago you have so much pride in it, there's so many great things that come out of there, but to me not enough people from the city shine a spotlight on the good things that go on with us or the fact that we are innovative and set trends.

Detroit, it's just an incredible city overall. The people here are so friendly and very outgoing.

Chicago is complicated and complex and very violent but also very rich with history and tradition and art and culture - it's all these things.

New York feels like sometimes it's not part of the United States. So does L.A. Chicago feels like it's a big city that's part of America.

Chicago is like a New York City. It's one of the those older cities. It really means something to fight there.

If you want to know anything about me, read my books - it's all there.

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.

Chicago has definitely played a part in my character development. I love the essence of the city, the personalities of the people, the hard-working spirit that you need to get through the winters. And every neighborhood has its great restaurants and the local hot-dog stand.

Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.

Anybody that's been in Indiana for five minutes knows that Hoosier hospitality is not a slogan, it's a reality.

I live my life. And the best place to do that is Chicago.

Harlem for me is Atlanta, Las Vegas, and Washington, D.C., in one place. You have very significant churches that have had national ramifications. At the same time, you have politics. On top of all that, you have entertainment because you have 70 years of music that came out of here, and if you scratch that, gangsterism happens.

I love Chicago. It's one of the great cities. I'm crazy about the town. It reminds me of New York when it was at its best, the New York that used to be and is no more. I love the architecture, the old stuff and the new stuff.

Chicago's always a friendly place to me.

I just want to paint that picture of Chicago that everybody's missing, and I just want to rap about it.

Paris has long been a palimpsest of different cities, each new iteration grafted on top of the still visible last, spanning the extremes of human excellence and beauty and, just as crucially, filth and squalor.

There's a certain vibe in my hometown; Buffalo is a city that has no illusions.

A lot of my writing and my detailing of scenes are based on my observations of life in Nagpur.

I love being Southern because of the people and the fans we have. People down here are more friendly - really warm people.