America Quote by Donna Tartt

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

Is there intellectual life in America? At present, the answer is no.

— Camille Paglia

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

— Danny K. Davis

There's definitely a way of thinking and a way of being in the South that has its advantages and disadvantages.

— Steven Soderbergh

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low…

— Susan Jacoby

America's intellectual community has never been very bright. Or honest. They're all sheep, following whatever the intellectual fashion of the decade happens to be.…

— Orson Scott Card

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

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can…

— Natasha Trethewey

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should…

— Stephen Jay Gould

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there…

— Douglas Sirk