Children Quote by Fannie Lou Hamer

I wanted to write about the experiences of the poor and the black and the rural people of the South.

— Jesmyn Ward

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

— Billy Bob Thornton

Many Southern writers must have learned the art of storytelling from listening to oral tales. I did. It gave me the knowledge that the…

— Erskine Caldwell

As the eldest son of an Alabama sharecropper family, I was constantly troubled by a collage of North American southern behaviors and notions in…

— John Henrik Clarke

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

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

— Patty Jenkins

I want to talk about the things that people don't think you're allowed to talk about.

— Karen Kilgariff

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

I grew up in the Deep South, where sexism, racism, and homophobia were and still are alive and well. I have early, early memories…

— Pauley Perrette

Like many people who live in the South, I'm drawn to the history of the Civil War.

— Nicholas Sparks

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

— Morris Chestnut

I grew up in the South, so a huge part of our American History education revolved around the Civil War.

— Anson Mount