Art Quote by Boris Kodjoe

I grew up Southern Baptist. In the Bible Belt.

— Harry Dean Stanton

Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong…

— Flannery O'Connor

I've been an evangelistic Baptist all my life and still am to some degree.

— Jimmy Carter

There was a lot of Southern Baptist preachers and some yelling ones but mostly we had a pastor who didn't scream and I found…

— Victoria Jackson

“What is the gospel, and how do we bring it to bear on the hearts of people today? What is this culture like, and…

— Timothy Keller

I was raised a Southern Baptist, and my whole family were Christians. However, my Dad was really into science and astronomy, so I felt…

— Craig Brewer

It was the Baptists who preached a kind of Social Gospel that captured my attention and imagination.

— Raphael Warnock

I'm all into Jazz; I'm into New Orleans type music. There is country, there is southern gospel. I'm a huge southern gospel fan.

— Bart Millard

I went back and researched the history of gospel; where it came from, slavery times, communicating with each other without their master knowing what…

— Boris Kodjoe

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

— E. O. Wilson

Gospel artists have to do something that secular artists don't always have to do and that's kind of abide by and reflect a certain…

— Jonathan McReynolds

I've always loved gospel music. Being raised in Mississippi, it was kind of part of the atmosphere down there.

— Marty Stuart