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
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
It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else… — Octavia Spencer Copy Share Image
Stone-ground grits are wonderful, but because they take so long to cook, I usually go with quick cooking grits - which I… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think… — Paula Deen Copy Share Image
Southerners have been known to stay over the Fourth and not get home before Thanksgiving. Some oldtimers take in overnight guests and… — Mary Ellen Snodgrass Copy Share Image
I'll always consider myself a Southerner. A lot of people put California down, but my dreams were realized there. — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not… — Natalie Zea Copy Share Image
Lincoln had internalized the pain of those around him-the wounded soldiers, the captured prisoners, the defeated Southerners. Little wonder that he was… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful… — Russell D. Moore Copy Share Image
Many whites, even white Southerners told me that even though it may have seemed like the blacks were being freed (by my… — Rosa Parks Copy Share Image
“I loved the landscape, the heat, the unhurried days, the fragrant and languorous nights. But there was something else, too; a sense… — Marie Jakober Copy Share Image
Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way… — Marcie Cohen Ferris 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
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
A man from Iowa or Illinois will say 'I'm from the Middle West'..a Georgian or a Mississipian may admit to being merely… — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
Being a Southerner, I'm interested in sex, violence, religion and all the things that make life interesting. — Karin Slaughter 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
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
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
Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers . . . great talkers. — Eudora Welty 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 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
“… 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
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
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
“Fincher was the kind of Southerner who will try to address you through a web of deep and antic southernness, and who… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What happened when… — Maria V. Snyder Copy Share Image
It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is… — John Crowe Ransom Copy Share Image
I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one… — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
First of all, "redneck" is a state of mind, not a person. So the "racist redneck" thing is a state of mind,… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
I just want you to know that as a southerner, who actually saw discrimination and have no doubt it existed in a… — Jeff Sessions Copy Share Image
As a southerner born after the epic events of the civil rights movement, I've always wondered how on earth people of good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
I decided to deflect her attitude by giving a long, Southern answer. I come from people who know how to draw things… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
I grew up in the age of discount air fare, and for me, the act of joining a culture was a great… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
One of the things I most wanted to do in New York was to go to a performance by Martha Graham. For… — Eugene Walter Copy Share Image
Southern food that appears in contemporary popular culture is so exaggerated that it's hardly recognizable to most Southerners. This enriching of Southern… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
Terroir - the taste of place - was important from the early South of the first Indian, African, and Europeans to the… — Marcie Cohen Ferris Copy Share Image
