Assurance Quote by John Shelton Reed

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

— Lewis Grizzard

I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it

— Richard Wright

South Central is just who I am.

— Ice Cube

“Because the South can be a dangerous place, especially for those who don’t understand it.”

— Shannon Celebi

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

The South is one of those kingdoms of the mind, like India or Scotland, that are neat and understandable only to people who have…

— Alistair Cooke

I'm nuts about the South - the people, the language, the food, the land, the stories and writers that come from there - but…

— Elizabeth Berg

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 ****ed for its virtues and praised for its faults, and there are those who wish its annihilation. But most revealing of…

— Richard M. Weaver

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

The South is a region that history has happened to.

— Richard M. Weaver

I escaped the [Southern-writer] label because I didn't and don't write about the South.

— William S. Burroughs