Angry Quote by John Shelton Reed

Every Southerner, I think, knows people like Bill Clinton, maybe not quite as smart and maybe not quite as liberal, but kind of a…

— John Shelton Reed

I can see why many Southerners, black ones in particular, don't like the implication that Southernness and the Confederate heritage are one and the…

— John Shelton Reed

Southerners smile more than other Americans.

— John Shelton Reed

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go…

— John Shelton Reed

If you care to define the South as a poor, rural region with lousy race relations, that South survives only in geographical shreds and…

— John Shelton Reed

“It’s useless to be as angry as to kill a man; you become responsible of killing someone who would have died of his own…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“On my first Sunday morning visiting Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, DC, my family and I sat in front of a lovely family…

— Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade." Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow…

— Nancy Werlin

Southerners make good novelists: they have so many stories because they have so much family.

— Gore Vidal

Professional Southerners sicken me.

— Barry Hannah

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

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