About Quote by Kathryn Stockett

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

— Florence King

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs... I knew that my heart would break if ever…

— Maya Angelou

I'm a Southerner, born and bred, but that doesn't mean I approve of all that goes on here, and there are a lot of…

— Mildred D. Taylor

Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted…

— Carson McCullers

Every decent person feels the pain of the African-American community, but I also don't want to pretend like I know the exact distinct pain.

— Brad Stevens

Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals…

— James Weldon Johnson

Believing that no one is better than the other. You know I grew up in the South. My senior year there was a very…

— Herschel Walker

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

— Reynolds Price

I certainly think that Southerners are tough, and I take pride in that.

— Jake Peavy

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

— Dean Koontz

In the South, you don't say exactly what's going on or what's on your mind.

— Anna Camp

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

— Karin Slaughter