Alabama Quote by John Henrik Clarke

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

— Reynolds Price

“Southerners have a lot to be proud of. We have survived, and we have overcome. Southern women, especially, have learned to be proud of…

— Deborah Ford

You know, I'm from the South, and I wasn't interested in perpetuating a stereotypical southern character.

— Walton Goggins

And of course these days I feel like there is a nation of us - displaced southerners and children of the working class. We…

— Dorothy Allison

“I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction." "I thought southern people were supposed to be warm…

— Andrea Laurence

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

I would like to talk about some of the things that happened that made me know that there was something wrong in the south…

— Fannie Lou Hamer

Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very…

— Barbara Kingsolver

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

— Jesmyn Ward

Living in Montgomery, I've been antagonized by the emergence of a narrative about our history that I believe is quite false and misleading, and…

— Bryan Stevenson

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

— Karin Slaughter