Accents Quote by John Edgar Wideman

I'm from the South, where if you walk down the street and there's somebody behind you talking with a Southern accent, you can't tell…

— Johnnie Cochran

In the South we experienced, you know, some black kids who gave us a hard time because - cause 'you talk white.' We didn't…

— Stuart Scott

Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that…

— Natasha Trethewey

Growing up, I thought I was white. It didn't occur to me I was Asian-American until I was studying abroad in Denmark and there…

— Maya Lin

I, on the other hand, have a bit of a southern accent.

— Michael W. Smith

I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas…

— Karan Mahajan

It was weird being a kid in the Midlands where outside everybody is white and speaks in a certain way but when you go…

— Lenny Henry

I think sometimes, especially when people were first getting introduced to me, they heard my accent and immediately thought, There's no way this girl…

— Lainey Wilson

Lots of people have expressed consternation that I haven't gotten rid of Southern accent, but I just never saw any reason to lose the…

— Roy Blount, Jr

In my opinion, if you do an accent well, it can never be racist. I've had white guys come up to me and do…

— Asim Chaudhry

Sometimes I'll go into a shop and speak in a different accent to see if I can pull it off. But then somebody will…

— Tatiana Maslany

Growing up in this post-apartheid era, the first generation of teens in South Africa living in this new democracy, I often found myself feeling…

— Adhir Kalyan