Bigotry Quote by Octavia Spencer

I had a deep prejudice against the South. It's taken me many years to get over that, be more open and thoughtful.

— John Edgar Wideman

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

When you live in the South, you're constantly part of the civil rights movement.

— Wadada Leo Smith

Bigotry doesn't care about state or regional lines. It's all over the place. But fortunately there are also really excellent human beings all over…

— Adrian Matejka

I grew up in the South, and I think there are lots of people who have distorted views of the South.

— Danny K. Davis

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

The South was very segregated. I mean, all through my childhood, long after Jim Crow was supposed to not be in existence, it was…

— Jacqueline Woodson

Having grown up in a segregated environment in the south I know what it's like to be stepped on, I know what it's like…

— Arthur Ashe

Most of my experience with racism comes from living in the South.

— JPEGMAFIA

The idea of growing up in the South and being a man is an interesting thing; there's a lot masculinity involved, with hunting, fishing,…

— Jason Isbell

“People think that the South is racist, and it was, and some parts still are, but for the most part, we've dealt with our…

— Larry Correia

I certainly know about the oppression and prejudices of being black and a woman and from the South.

— Clarice Taylor