Certainly Quote by Jake Peavy

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

I think of myself as a Hollywood hillbilly, but I'm sick of all these questions people ask about Alabama. 'Do you have an outhouse?'…

— Sunny Mabrey

I think Confederate Battle Flag is a symbol that causes a great deal of division and reminds us of a really hurtful legacy and…

— Russell D. Moore

Tipping your hat to a lady is good form. If you're at a dinner table, you'd most certainly take your hat off - cowboy…

— Lyle Lovett

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

To Southerners like my mother, 'Gone With the Wind' was not just a book; it was an answer, a clenched fist raised to the…

— Pat Conroy

“His voice had this thick, Charleston accent, where every word had more syllables than ever intended, yet each word seemed as if it had…

— Laura Miller, Butterfly Weeds

Southerners pride themselves on being polite. This is why we always use euphemisms to express ourselves.

— Tinsley Mortimer

Their prejudice allowed white Southerners to look the other way when blacks were denied their most basic human rights, and it encouraged the worst…

— Linda Chavez

“No matter what a person does to cover up and conceal themselves, when we write and lose control, I can spot a person from…

— Natalie Goldberg

For generations, even many otherwise decent white Southerners learned to despise black people.

— Linda Chavez

Even for southerners, Arkansans are amazingly friendly and extend hospitality to all strangers with astonishing openness. You couldn't find a pretension in that state…

— Molly Ivins