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title: "3 Coming South Quotes by 3 authors"
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> [Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-burnett/coming-from-the-south-and-growing-up-in-l-a-where-it-was-so/)

[Charles Burnett](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-burnett/)

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> [“Down our way we're always had a theory that the Civil War was not brought on by Secession of Slavery or the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/irvin-s-cobb/down-our-way-we-re-always-had-a-theory-that-the-civil-war-was-not/)

[Irvin S. Cobb](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/irvin-s-cobb/)

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> [I like New York, man - I ain't gonna front. The only thing I probably don't like about New York is that,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlamagne-tha-god/i-like-new-york-man-i-ain-t-gonna-front-the-only-thing-i-probably-don/)

[Charlamagne tha God](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlamagne-tha-god/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d4c/charlamagne-tha-god-3770_look_i-like-new-york-man-i-ain-t-gonna-front_2899030.jpg)

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