Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
Southerners are also like ethnic groups in that they have a sense of group identity. — John Shelton Reed Copy Share Image
“Well, Southerners like to eat well. You see, it's an event when it's done right.” — Stan Shaw Copy Share Image
Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family. — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
I guess I'm just courtly until people get in my way. You'll find most Southerners are like that. — Hunter S. Thompson Copy Share Image
I certainly think that Southerners are tough, and I take pride in that. — Jake Peavy Copy Share Image
[Yankees] are pretty much like southerners except with worse manners, of course, and terrible accents. — Margaret Mitchell 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 do play a lot of Southerners because I grew up in the South, but they're still diverse. — Carrie Preston 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
“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
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
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
“We Southerners are a strong lot. Like our ancestors before us, we will survive. I will never lose faith. I am standing… — Nancy B. Brewer 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
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
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
And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
“As proud Southerners, we don’t take kindly to being told by Yankees what we are doing wrong. It might be the wrongest… — Thomas F. Clardy 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
“Babcock knew no Southerners personally but he had seen them in court often enough...and Ed's manner and appearance said Dixie to him.… — charles portis Copy Share Image
“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
“We aren’t slow in the South; we just savor our moments. Southerners can sit on a porch all afternoon trying to guess… — Deborah Ford Copy Share Image
“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good… — Jan Norris Copy Share Image
“The way the truth of it hits you is less white-lighting whisky more the slow arrival of fall in a place that… — D.A. Lockhart 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
“Jerusalem was capital of southern Israel, known then as Judah. Isn't it true that there's always a rivalry between north and south?… — Tom Robbins 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
“So the women would not forgive. Their passion remained intact, carefully guarded and nurtured by the bitter knowledge of all they had… — Howard Bahr Copy Share Image
“First memory: a man at the back door is saying, I have real bad news, sweat is dripping off his face, Garbert's… — Frances Mayes Copy Share Image
“Southerners. Such literate, civilized folk, such charm and cleverness and passion for living, such genuine interest in people, all people, high and… — Wilton Barnhardt Copy Share Image
“She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, and… — Richard Ford 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
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