Educated Quote by Mark Twain

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's…

— Natalie Zea

It has been said that we have not had the three R's in America, we had the six R's; remedial readin', remedial 'ritin' and…

— Robert M. Hutchins

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

— Lewis Grizzard

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

— William S. Burroughs

There's no doubt that I'm southern, I'm country, I'm a redneck, I'm whatever you want to call it.

— Lainey Wilson

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can…

— Natasha Trethewey

Professional Southerners sicken me.

— Barry Hannah

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

— Reynolds Price

It's really rare that you come across a Southern character that's not stereotyped, vilified or aggrandized.

— Anson Mount

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

“The era of mass education and the standardization of the English language left such expressions as marks of uneducated people in the American South”

— Thomas Sowell