“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
“Sing me a love song in a slow, southern drawl to the tune of sunny days...” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
“I loved the land that surrounded me but hated the history that haunted that land.” — Mark Kemp 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
“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
“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
“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
“… the South is the land of Washington, who made our Nation – of Jefferson, who shaped its direction – and of… — Anonymous 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don’t understand it.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
