“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
“There are turning points in everyone's life when we have to fight, even if we have to do it by ourselves and… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.” — Mark Kemp 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 South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don’t understand it.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
“Then the game became guessing where the storm would hit, or, in local parlance, “go in,” as if it were some stray… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“We might be a bit slow on some things down in the South, but we know murder.” — Cynthia Eden Copy Share Image
“Raw Living: Picking blackberries, beneath late afternoon sun; a sunset reminiscent of watermelon sangria, as the scent of honeysuckle accosts me and… — Brandi L. Bates Copy Share Image
“The enemy was not the Klan but the inside-outside lock that racism and classism had on the minds of the people: It… — Junius Williams Copy Share Image
“I'd never heard of a holy man named after a llama. I'd never heard of a great, gaping vagina. And I didn't… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“… the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was nineteen fifty seven, the Little Rock nine were escorted to school by Federal troops under the order of President Eisenhower… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
“I came to the state twenty years ago from the South, the gothic South. I’ve heard it called that, haven’t you, Mister… — Jackson Burnett Copy Share Image
“I have myself known two southern wives who exhorted their husbands to free those slaves towards whom they stood in a "parental… — Harriet A. Jacobs Copy Share Image
“While the post-Civil War southerners were pushing as fast as they could into the New South, were grasping Yankee dollars with enthusiasm,… — Frank E. Vandiver Copy Share Image
“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a… — John Hope Franklin Copy Share Image
“Country jakes are always whining about the sanctity of states' rights and individual freedoms. Yet when a couple of queers want to… — Chuck Thompson Copy Share Image
“You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the… — Amanda Kyle Williams Copy Share Image
“She went to the window. A fine sheen of sugary frost covered everything in sight, and white smoke rose from chimneys in… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“But there was a difference in their hardness and hers and just what the difference was, she could not, for the moment,… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Okay, let’s pretend to be friends. Just two friends having dinner.” “That doesn’t work in the South. A male friend cannot have… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“As the bus headed into the night, I noticed that the bench seat in the back of the bus was vacant. So… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“Some of you from outside the South may be wondering why we’re emphasizing this irrefutable historical fact that everyone should know so… — Trae Crowder Copy Share Image
![“[The South's] obsession was to maintain a government, an economy, an arrangement of the sexes, a relationship of the races, and a social system that had never existed...except in the fertile imagination of those who would not confront either the reality that existed or the change that would bring…” quote by John Hope Franklin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f70/john-hope-franklin-31513_change_the-south-s-obsession-was-to-maintain-a_2112240.jpg)
