Black Quote by Clarence Thomas

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

— Jesmyn Ward

There is a mythic view of the South that's symbolized by the film "Gone With The Wind" that looks back fondly at slavery as…

— William R. Ferris

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

— Danny K. Davis

“The South believed an educated Negro to be a dangerous Negro. And the South was not wholly wrong; for education among all kinds of…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever…

— Maya Angelou

For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white…

— Benjamin E. Mays

To be Black is the greatest fiction of my life. Yet I'm still bound to its myth. I can't help but think about the…

— RaMell Ross

It's very seldom that we see the good of the South. There is a perception that Southerners are racists and everyone else in the…

— Octavia Spencer

The history of Black Americans in South Carolina is riddled with trials and tribulations.

— Jaime Harrison

The movies I've made about the South, they were my experience and it's something that I know.

— Billy Bob Thornton

I lived and worked in photography in Hale County, Alabama for almost 15 years. Sometimes there I feel like I have no race and…

— RaMell Ross