“I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans cu...” — Big Freedia Quote

“I've worked tremendously hard to make things happen for New Orleans culture.”

“Twerking - and it's a lot more than twerking - comes from a long history of music and dance in New Orleans. Twerkin' happen around the world for a long time now, so I'm very excited that it's coming into the public eye, as long as it's respected.”

“For a long time a lot of people thought New Orleans wasn't a safe place and that it was very ratchet.”

“People from New Orleans are extremely prideful.”

“It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.”

“The New Orleans I knew ain't no more.”