There is a certain type of white Southerner who respects certain Negro individuals. — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
I don't think of myself as a Negro. I'm a Southerner. I just like the Southern way of life. — Julian Bond Copy Share Image
Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Nobody but a Southerner knows the wrenching rinsing sadness of the cities of the North. — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
A true Southerner will never say in 2-3 words what can better be said in 10-12. — Charles Kuralt Copy Share Image
The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Being Southerners, it was a source of shame to some members of the family that we had no recorded ancestors on either… — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Two great areas of deafness existed in the South: White Southerners had no ears to hear that which threatened their Dream. And… — Sarah-Patton Boyle Copy Share Image
Basically there is no difference between whites and blacks, browns and yellows. I decided to think no more of people as Northerners… — Ethel Waters Copy Share Image
because the theater lost a Barrymore every time a Southerner decided not to go on the stage, just about anything that comes… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Even as a Southerner, there's only so much corn-pone shucking and jiving about mama-and-gravy talk I can take. — Rick Wilson Copy Share Image
“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.” — Chad B Hanson Copy Share Image
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
A man working for wages his whole life is not really free. That is why Jefferson said, you have to own land.… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
While I felt very much a Southerner as a child, being Jewish gave me an outsider's perspective. People look at region in… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
I love the South. Although I grew up primarily in Memphis, my family moved around a ton when I was a kid.… — Chris Hardwick Copy Share Image
I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just… — Andy Griffith Copy Share Image
Many Americans would die naked in the middle of the road before they'd tell you what's hurt them most. But a born… — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the… — Alexander Koblencs Copy Share Image
Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people. — Linda Chavez Copy Share Image
I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern. — Reynolds Price Copy Share Image
to a Southerner it is faux pas, not sins, that matter in this world. — Florence King Copy Share Image
The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished… — Carson McCullers Copy Share Image
I'm a Southerner - I never take satisfaction in touching a nerve. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
I was born in a hurricane in Pensacola, Florida... my dad was in the military, so we moved all over the place.… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
I discovered that the people of the North are different and there's no way you can make a person from the North… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
When you live in a lot of places, you can't help but have them become part of you. Technically, I am a… — Neko Case Copy Share Image
The Southerners are the only cooks in the United States. The real difference between the South and the North is that one… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image