Blue Quote by John Shelton Reed

People give the South a bad rap. It's often stereotyped as backwards and close-minded and dogmatic, and all of those things have been true.…

— Jesmyn Ward

I like the South because it is so much warmer on the sidelines than it is up North.

— Tom Landry

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

In many ways, the South can be very traditional and confining. And what is interesting to me is how women find their way around…

— Connie Britton

The South is the last place with a sense of place.

— Lewis Grizzard

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

— Billy Bob Thornton

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to…

— Holly Hunter

Tell about the South. What's it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.

— William Faulkner

The South is like a foreign country to me!

— Richard LaGravenese

I travel all the time, but when I come back to the South, I see such progress. In a real sense, a great deal…

— John Lewis

“The Old South is a place where people use food to tell themselves who they are, to tell others who they are, and to…

— Michael W. Twitty

I had been to the South many times and I thought I knew what the South was, but not until you live with people…

— Genevieve Gorder