On Atlanta

This is a quote I stumbled across a while back by W.E.B. Du Bois from his book The Souls of Black Folks. I really love the way he portrays Atlanta. Anyone that works in the city, think of this tomorrow morning on your way to work:

"South of the North, yet north of the South, lies the City of a Hundred Hills, peering out from the shadows of the past into the promise of the future. I have seen her in the morning, when the first flush of day had half-roused her; she lay gray and still on the crimson soil of Georgia; then the blue smoke began to curl from her chimneys, the tinkle of the bell and scream of whistle broke the silence, the rattle and roar of busy life slowly gathered and swelled, until the seething whirl of the city seemed a strange thing in a sleepy land."