Blood Quote by Cynthia Nixon

I'm so Southern that I'm related to myself. I'm actually my own cousin.

— Ralphie May

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

— Billy Bob Thornton

Coming from the South and growing up in L.A. where it was so segregated - worse than the South in many ways - all…

— Charles Burnett

Where do you come from?"...This is the number one most-asked question in all of South Carolina. We want to know if you are one…

— Sue Monk Kidd

I'm a southern girl, and I grew up with this slightly schizophrenic upbringing where I bounced back and forth between Atlanta, Georgia, and a…

— Lauren Myracle

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I…

— Shanola Hampton

“Being Southern isn't talking with an accent...or rocking on a porch while drinking sweet tea, or knowing how to tell a good story. It's…

— Jan Norris

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

Being mixed in the South, that's a struggle that everybody deals with differently. Some people go careening to one side or the other, and…

— Rhiannon Giddens

I didn't technically grow up in the South, but both my parents were from there.

— Kevin Young

I'd spent summers growing up in Mississippi, so I had an idea of what the South is like.

— Patty Jenkins

There's a rich family culture in South Central. The block that I grew up on, all the kids were best friends. They hung out…

— Spencer Paysinger