“The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live, and have lived here, are… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
“His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if… — Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds Copy Share Image
To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
“Every culture has its southerners -- people who work as little as they can, preferring to dance, drink, sing brawl, kill their… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“In the North, he discoverd, courtesy was considered a barometer of genuine esteem; for any decently brought up Southerner, good manners were… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“That's when I caught my first glimpse of Blaine Crabtree. He was sandwiched in between two guys that were laughing at who… — Magan Vernon Copy Share Image
“A determined Yankee book drummer once told a Southerner that 'a set of books on scientific agriculture' would teach him to 'farm… — Grady McWhiney Copy Share Image
“When we became teenagers boredom grew like a moth in a cocoon fighting to escape, and the peace created by our parents… — Scott Thompson Copy Share Image
“The past that Southerners are forever talking about is not a dead past--it is a chapter from the legend that our kinfolks… — Ben Robertson Copy Share Image
“Only Southerners have taken horsewhips and pistols to editors about the treatment or maltreatment of their manuscript. This--the actual pistols--was in the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
“I think the people from Mississippi ought to come to Chicago to learn how to hate." Martin Luther King, Jr. after the… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have… — Sunny Mabrey Copy Share Image
My father served as an Army doctor in West Germany in the late '50s and early '60s. As a result, he and… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
“Puttin’ on a cowboy hat & a pair of boots doesn’t make you country; Like puttin’ on a ball gown & glass… — Kellie Elmore 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
“People from the country ought to be at the forefront of humankind's struggle for kindness and equality, and yet, the situation is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white… — Noah Feldman Copy Share Image
“Southerners are an easygoing race when it comes to aberrations of conduct. They will react with anger if something out of the… — Michael McDowell Copy Share Image
“Growing up in Fitzgerald, I lived in an intense microcosm, where your neighbor knows what you're going to do even before you… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“. . .I've been the sheriff here for about five years now, and I'm surprised we haven't met." "She's been gone awhile--out… — Karen White Copy Share Image
“If the least thing goes wrong with a saddle, or clothes, or a boot, you cannot find a soul to make repairs,… — Louis-Philippe Copy Share Image
“The American South is an authentic American Culture. Maybe the last. The north is just a Casserole Culture – a tasteless vat… — Tim Heaton Copy Share Image
