Achievement Quote by Pat Conroy

I decided early on that I wanted to participate in the greater American experience, rather than the parochial one in Mississippi. But I have…

— Richard Ford

“The storied self knows that self is not enough.”

— Richard Kearney

Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong…

— Flannery O'Connor

The South is about the abundance, beauty, and richness of Southern culture, but also its dark underside. The history of Southern food reflects the…

— Marcie Cohen Ferris

“Never let it be said that dialect is a reflection of intellect. On the contrary, it is a reflection of the deep traditional values…

— Patricia H. Graham

“The body count alone marks the plantation as a sacred place, and yet that's not what hallows the grounds to most. Traditionally, the plantation…

— Michael W. Twitty

Intellectual development was paramount to my father, of course, but he was hardly a geek. He was a man who happened to be of…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

“After observing southern culture for some time, Emily Burke concluded that the people of the South would not think they could subsist without their…

— Sam Bowers Hilliard

In southern culture, possession of a gun became kind of a sign of manhood, not just because of slaves but other white men. If…

— Noam Chomsky

“As flawed as Southern culture is, mendacity has always been treated in the South as a despicable characteristic. Notice how often Southerners casually address…

— James Lee Burke

“Southern culture is vivified, made a culture, by the melding of influences that are held far more closely than in other, lesser parts of…

— Markham Shaw Pyle

“In general, those from outside the southern culture built a style around exaggerations of southern music, and missed the lonesome hillbilly and blues feel…

— Colin Escott