Attention Quote by Bubba Sparxxx

Most Southerners recognize when a story about their own experience feels off-kilter or offensive. But Southerners are also fascinated by the way their region…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not…

— Harper Lee

The tradition of the South is not urban... I think we are a region of storytellers, naturally, just from our tribal instincts. We did…

— Harper Lee

I understand the rural south because I spent a lot of time in it when I was a kid and my grandfather’s brothers were…

— Samuel L. Jackson

I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.

— Bubba Sparxxx

Most people just aren't clear-eyed about the rural South. We think that the urban centers are the problem, and the rural areas across the…

— Jesmyn Ward

It's a fascinating culture [the South in the Civil War period] and so rife with comedic possibilities. And not in a way that...I have…

— Ed Helms

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

— Anson Mount

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very…

— Barbara Kingsolver

It is something unique to the South, the way people look up to actors and worship them and literally celebrate their film.

— Amrita Rao

It sounds corny, but theres something about the South, the hospitality, the charm.

— Sarah Shahi

In the South, it is different, they have a audience that is literate.

— Ajay Devgan